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Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

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Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#2
I see this message when visiting twitch.tv:

    Fastly error: unknown domain: www.twitch.tv.
    Details: cache-syd10136-SYD
Or alternately this one:

    Error 503 Service Unavailable
    Service Unavailable
    Guru Mediation:
    Details: cache-syd10146-SYD 1623148640 1040952784
    Varnish cache server
Certainly not ideal for a group of websites that huge. I wonder if this will be one of those cases where I get to read an interesting technical write-up of the outage.

Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#5

Somebody has to pay for this, definitely Fastly. I want a full investigation and an elaborate post mortem of the most intricate of details. No stone unturned, lots of people lost billions because of this.

Who makes billions per hour through their website? (but apparently couldn't be bothered to prepare for this?)

Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#6
post #5

Somebody has to pay for this, definitely Fastly. I want a full investigation and an elaborate post mortem of the most intricate of details. No stone unturned, lots of people lost billions because of this.

Who makes billions per hour through their website? (but apparently couldn't be bothered to prepare for this?)

Who is talking about a 'website'? The Fastly CDN is their main product no?

I hope you're not suggesting these companies Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase etc didn't lose any revenue then? I would argue this is now collectively in the billions.

Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#7
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who makes billions per hour through their website? (but apparently couldn't be bothered to prepare for this?)

Who is talking about a 'website'? The Fastly CDN is their main product no? I hope you're not suggesting these companies Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase etc didn't lose any revenue then? I would argue this is now collectively in the billions.

None of those lost billions just because they were not available for an hour. (and if anybody did, really bad risk management on their part)

Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#8
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is talking about a 'website'? The Fastly CDN is their main product no? I hope you're not suggesting these companies Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase etc didn't lose any revenue then? I would argue this is now collectively in the billions.

None of those lost billions just because they were not available for an hour. (and if anybody did, really bad risk management on their part)

So you're saying companies losing huge ad budgets for an hour across all these websites, traders not being able to place trades, withdraw funds or close their positions from their trading accounts and consumers not being able to purchase anything from 1 million+ Shopify shops worldwide does not amount to billions lost?

Please stop this naive outlook.

Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#9
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of those lost billions just because they were not available for an hour. (and if anybody did, really bad risk management on their part)

So you're saying companies losing huge ad budgets for an hour across all these websites, traders not being able to place trades, withdraw funds or close their positions from their trading accounts and consumers not being able to purchase anything from 1 million+ Shopify shops worldwide does not amount to billions lost? Please stop this naive outlook.

Your original statement was that “lots of people lost billions” which seems patently absurd taken literally.

Now you’ve scaled it down to a collective loss of income across all companies impacted in the billions, which is at least plausible, but you can hardly blame people for treating your original statement less than seriously.

Re: Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

#10
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're saying companies losing huge ad budgets for an hour across all these websites, traders not being able to place trades, withdraw funds or close their positions from their trading accounts and consumers not being able to purchase anything from 1 million+ Shopify shops worldwide does not amount to billions lost? Please stop this naive outlook.

Your original statement was that “lots of people lost billions” which seems patently absurd taken literally. Now you’ve scaled it down to a collective loss of income across all companies impacted in the billions, which is at least plausible, but you can hardly blame people for treating your original statement less than seriously.

billions lost either way regardless of how you interpret it, and I expect Fastly to have a good reason as to why these popular clients and websites should continue paying for this CDN service.

I look forward to this extremely detailed post mortem from them.