Google outage – resolved

Post by ignoramous » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 3:40 PM UTC

ardy42 wrote: post #749

ignoramous wrote: post #596

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Same. At AWS, I once took an entire AZ down of a public-facing production service (with a mis-typed command), but that was nothing compared to when I accidentally deleted an entire region via internal console (too many browser tabs). Thank goodness turned out to be unused / unlaunched, non-production stack. I felt horrible for hours despite zero impact (in both the cases).

> At AWS, I once took an entire AZ down of a public-facing production service (with a mis-typed command), but that was nothing compared to when I accidentally deleted an entire region via internal console (too many browser tabs). Thank goodness turned out to be unused / unlaunched, non-production stack. I felt horrible for hours despite zero impact (in both the cases). It seems like a design flaw for actions like tha…

Post by kerneis » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 7:32 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #700

jacquesm wrote: post #196

So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?

Let's hope tailscale swoops in and creates a no-gimmicks, highly usable, private internet for everyone. They seemed to have figured out the hard parts already.

Post by mav3rick » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 2:02 AM UTC

xtracto wrote: post #864

mav3rick wrote: post #862

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So you do think Leetcode is useful ? What's up with the flex ? Congratulations on the PhD and job, I guess ?. Looks like you could definitely invert a binary tree.

Leetcode is good for some things, but in my experience is it not a good factor to filter Software Engineers (it is a good metric to filter candidates to form a team for the IOI or similar). This is a response I wrote elsewhere: I've been growing Engineering teams for the last 10 years as hiring managers in different startups. At some point in our startup we had those kind of HackerRank questions as filters. The thing…

Post by beshrkayali » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 11:48 AM UTC

oAlbe wrote: post #609

beshrkayali wrote: post #508

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The point is that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. All services go down. If you're worried about someone else handling it when it goes down then host your own [1], otherwise you can use something different for each thing you need. Don't rely on Google for everything. 1- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ema...

Yes, I know what's the point. But how do you avoid putting all your eggs in one basket? You can't host your email on more than one "provider" (including self host), and the vast majority of important services that you link your email to (bank, digital identity, taxes and other government services) does not allow you to have more than one linked to it; which means, that one goes down, you don't have one. Sure, I can g…

Post by warrenm » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

marcus_holmes wrote: post #710

papito wrote: post #642

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Jesus. One would think you'd have some safeguards for that. Even Dropbox will give you an alert if you try to nuke over 1,000 files. More reasons to COLOR CODE your work environments, if possible.

colorblind (red/green) person here - 5% of the male population just don't see color enough for it to be an important visual clue. So sure, color-code your environments, but if you find someone about to do something to a red environment that they clearly should only be doing to a green environment, just check if they're seeing what you're seeing before you sack them ;)