Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.

  As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.

  Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).

  The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.

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  • DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, the argument is about spending money to migrate, because how else do we decouple the single points of failure, if not to migrate away?

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