I’m similarly skeptical it’s a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.
Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
SpazOut@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well
eah@programming.dev 4 days ago
noxypaws@pawb.social 4 days ago
hardly a silver bullet tho. capacity shortages, running up against any of dozens of quotas, or even just shit application code can and will fuck over even the best designed autoscaled cloud shit
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Yeah it’s not like services make the cancellation process super difficult. It’s like mafia style extortion. They make this type of stuff so difficult, I like to waste their time too, and make sure it involves wasting so many of their employees time, which they have to pay for.