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by theptip 3787 days ago
It's shocking that they don't at least have a read replica of their system in another 'AZ'. That's cloud hosting 101, and being self-hosted isn't an excuse to skimp on this.

If an outage caused 2 hours of read-only access to repos it would still be moderately impactful, but at least we could still build our Go code.

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For people reading this, AZ in this context would be Availability Zone
For people reading this, 'Availability Zone' in this context would be (AWS speak for) 'datacentre'. :)
Right, and not the Grand Canyon State.

The space of acronyms/abbreviations is quite cluttered.

Heh, not from the US initially so that overloading did not occur to me :)

That's an interesting alternate reading though...

"To ensure the integrity of our data, we need to locate another Arizona, since this one is serving us so well."

Right, and not the Grand Canyon State.

The space of acronyms/abbreviations is quite cluttered.

So your building process depends on the availability of an external company?