Maury BrownMy latest article for Forbes:
With Twitter’s Automated Copyright Strike System Down, Live Sports Events Could Join Movies
Krufty old computer janitor.
Tricked into designing and running distributed systems.
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Tracy Chouooh just saw a tiktok repost on mastodon for the first time, i wonder how much overlap there is in the user bases 🤣
Robert ReichCorporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.
Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.
Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.
Kara ShallenbergFans of the remarkable Susan Cooper classic, “The Dark is Rising” have a real treat in store: BBC radio drama is set to start in a month. Script was adapted by a True Fan of the novel and it promises to be excellent. Here’s link to 6-minute promo. When they sing the “The Dark is Rising” poem at the end I literally got scalp-prickles. It’s PERFECT. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dgrz83?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…
@sehro At a certain level of scale/complexity it is unavoidable, but I get what you are saying. I prefer to work on systems I know I can recover from a hard down.
When you have services of that complexity and scale, All of your efforts go into ensuring they never actually go down completely.
That is the DR plan.
@sehro I worked at Google for 13 years. We knew that a cold boot was impossible. A team actually proved that in 2017.
I have no reason to believe that AWS or Azure don't have the same problem.
I've been putting off on setting up my own server until I see it the people I care about settle here in a meaningful way.
I hope they do. I'm feeling the itch to run a meaningful server for personal use again.
As Twitter is likely to suffer a failure that it probably can't recover from in the next few weeks it has me thinking. In the case of Twitter, the blast radius is just Twitter.
All the big boys in tech have a cold start problem. If Google or AWS were to suffer a full down scenario. Not only will their services be down, but everyone who uses them as a cloud provider will die. That is terrifying.
I do worry about what we are losing, especially in the cyber security space. I really hope the security community mostly make it over here.
The end is nigh. I give it a week or 2 tops.
ngl, I'm absolutely intrigued. This is the type of disaster scenario that we try to tabletop. I didn't expect to see it play out in the real world like this.