Jeff Geerling
AWS Outage #itwasdns
Oct 20 at 9:48amIvory for iOS
Show threadAlbert HickeyOct 20
@geerlingguy Saw something like this years ago and was "Code Compiling"
Show threadDaniele Pantaleo 🦥Oct 20

@winkleink @geerlingguy yep

https://xkcd.com/303/

Compiling

xkcd
Show threadJackie JudeOct 21
@winkleink @geerlingguy this is the original https://xkcd.com/303/
Show threadHydrianNov 10
@winkleink @geerlingguy Try decades ago…
Show threadStu (Archived)Oct 20
@geerlingguy credit to the brilliant Randall Munroe for that gem.
Show threadGuillaume RossoliniOct 20
@geerlingguy since this affected Docker, the comic applies amazingly well
Show threadryanOct 20
@geerlingguy aws: outages as a service
Show threadAlerta! Alerta!Oct 20
@geerlingguy Thank good someone made that! I was thinking about that all morning!
Show threadTrimTab 🇺🇦Oct 20

@geerlingguy
It does illustrate a perverse incentive i have observed in the IT teams i work with. Namely the drive to outsource to the cloud all responsibility so that your IT job becomes more cushy, and so that you bear zero responsibility when stuff breaks.

I love IT guys but srsly.... Clicking azure config buttons does not make you a high power technology guru. It numbs your mind, rots your brain, traps you in MS only skills. Result: you become a tick box clicking red tape bureaucrat.

Show threadPaul SomeoneElseOct 20
If you have and trust person that likes computer then, heuristically
for me, computer in closet is more reliable than cloud service.
(Don't forget how much config is baked into all things cloud service
and a broken config is the same as downtime.)
Show threadJens HeinitzOct 21
Did the AWS outage cause the docker issues?