dennisgorelik: 2020-06-13 in my home office (Default)
Hacker News laughs at Facebook's corporate doublespeak:
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405133
I skimmed over that post. I had to go through it twice to see where they actually were admitting defeat. Was buried in the middle of the second to last paragraph.
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The actual title, "High altitude connectivity: the next chapter" and the admission that the project is actually shutting down remind me of Google's corp-speak drenched blog post about Google Fiber
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I really cannot believe how deeply they buried that admission.
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I had to read this whole thing twice to find what it is all about.
A lot of self-congratulatory corporate speak there. I wish companies could just clearly state what is going on sometimes. Then I'm not surprised, this is Facebook
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Here's the core of original Facebook message:
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https://code.facebook.com/posts/190457848334738
we've decided not to design or build our own aircraft any longer, and to close our facility in Bridgwater
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dennisgorelik: 2020-06-13 in my home office (Default)
API's of some of our business partners are down today, thanks to Amazon S3 being down in their North Virginia data center.

Amazon's failure is the hottest topic on Hacker News today with 1500+ upvotes after just couple of hours:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673

Admins joke about Amazon uptime status panel that falsely report "green" simply because it relies on failed S3 service:
https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/
The ease with which AWS was able to get off the ground by leasing colocation space in northern Virginia in 2006 is the same reason that US-East is the most fragile molecule of the AWS cloud: it’s old, and it’s running on old equipment in old buildings.
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Fortunately, when I chose datacenter for Amazon SES - I picked Amazon's "West" datacenter. It is up.
I expected Amazon's primary (North Virginia) datacenter to fail again. Today I got the confirmation.

PostJobFree itself is hosted on SoftLayer - that never had any major downtime like Amazon has every few years.

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