IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

Post by freehunter » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 12:06 AM UTC

spydum wrote: post #65

ComputerGuru wrote: post #53

So what are HNers using IBM Cloud for and where do you see that it has an edge over AWS offerings (where an overlap exists, obviously)? (I figure either you’re in devops and you are putting out fires too busy to read this thread or you’re not and your work is halted because of the incident so you might have time to read and reply ;)

I suspect nobody really uses it outside of weird outsourced financial modelling/planning tools like TM1 and other apps people stopped wanting to manage themselves.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 12:08 AM UTC

caiobegotti wrote: post #78

all_blue_chucks wrote: post #62

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Never humiliate a coworker in public. Instead say "both options were considered but ultimately it was decided to select option B for reason Y."

My professional experience tells me that the next question will be who decided for B given Y, then you answer it and then you have a target on your SRE back, I'm afraid. Remember that the trickle-down economics works only when the shit hits the fans and what trickles down is not money.

Post by pmarreck » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 12:10 AM UTC

all_blue_chucks wrote: post #62

caiobegotti wrote: post #24

Honest slightly cynical question: most probably someone inside the responsible team said some day that it would be very stupid to host the status page inside the same infrastructure being monitored, but they were probably ignored... what should that person do now? Say "toldya!" out loud in the postmortem meeting or simply shut up and move on because reality is that we are hired to do some stupid task and not to think…

Never humiliate a coworker in public. Instead say "both options were considered but ultimately it was decided to select option B for reason Y."

Post by mbreese » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 12:10 AM UTC

Operyl wrote: post #90

colinbartlett wrote: post #74

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Do you actually have data on that or are you conjecturing? Because I would really love to see data about that if it exists somewhere.

I'm talking from experience. Most things do get post mortems, but there's a lot of crap they also don't give us post mortems for "because customer data." It's my number 1 complaint, and I fight with managers about this all the time. We have a ton of hypervisor problems, and a lot of networking issues (generally over private network) and they tend to get very very secretive about it.

Post by rezonant » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 12:12 AM UTC

arkitaip wrote: post #86

jedberg wrote: post #79

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Lol yes. It's intentional. It stops spam bots from trying to sign up, since we aren't open for signups yet. But don't worry, you're not the first to mention it. I suppose I should just fix it and deal with the spam like normal. I liked the unintended effect of cutting down on spam. I guess a lot of spam bots are written on top of standard libraries that reject bad certs. :) Also, this was ironically a great way to pu…

This has to be the most unconventional anti-spam technique I've ever heard about.