Re: FYI Netflix is down

[Grant Ridder <shortdudey123 () gmail com>]

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 () gmail com> wrote:

> On 6/29/2012 10:38 PM, jamie rishaw wrote:
>
> > you know what's happening even more?
> >
> > ..Amazon not learning their lesson.
> >
> > 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..
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ...
>
> 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.