FYI Netflix is down

Sat Jun 30 06:09:08 UTC 2012

well one would think that they could at least get power redundancy right...

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Roy <r.engehausen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/29/2012 10:38 PM, jamie rishaw wrote:
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>> you know what's happening even more?
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>> ..Amazon not learning their lesson.
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>> they just had an outage quite similar.. they "performed a full audit" on
>> electrical systems worldwide, according to the rfo/post mortem.
>>
>> looks like they need to perform a "full and we mean it" audit, and like
>> I've been doing/participating in at dot coms for a decade plus: Actually
>> Do
>> Regular Load tests..
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>> Related/equally to blame: companies that rely heavily on one aws zone, or
>> arguably "one cloud" (period), are asking for it.
>>
>> Please stop these crappy practices, people.  Do real world DR testing.
>>  Play "What If This City Dropped Off The Map" games, because tonight,
>> parts
>> of VA infact did.
>>
>> ...
>>
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> I am not a computer science guy but been around a long time.  Data centers
> and clouds are like software.  Once they reach a certain size, its
> impossible to keep the bugs out.  You can test and test your heart out and
> something will slip by.  You can say the same thing about nuclear reactors,
> Apollo moon missions, the NorthEast power grid, and most other technology
> disasters.
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