Whelp, this couldn’t have happened at a funnier time for me. I’ve been pushing for their paid solution to be used in our team for months, finally got the sign off from compliance, etc.
Outage occurs halfway through my presentation to the whole team, shortly after I’d been discussing how great it would be as a robust, highly available storage solution for our knowledge base!
I recall reading an article, years ago, how stack overflow is ran off of the equivalent of like two on-prem servers that could take the load way better and far more cheaply than an "enterprise cloud architecture" could.
I thought it was an amazing example of how expensive it is to be in the cloud. I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud...
Think they still run off of a few servers or did they ever migrate to the cloud?
> I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud
The cloud has outages too, though. If you've been here long enough you've seen plenty of cloud-related outages. The truth is, outages happen, on cloud or otherwise. They might've avoided this but they might've been hit by yesterday's AWS outage. [0]
I don't think they'd gain much from migrating, and to the best of my knowledge they haven't.
Ive seen entire regions go down in AWS, Google, and Azure. I remember a single developer pushed some code and crashed all of Googles DNS a few years ago.
Cloud is not all wine and roses but I still love it.
Outage occurs halfway through my presentation to the whole team, shortly after I’d been discussing how great it would be as a robust, highly available storage solution for our knowledge base!
Can’t help but laugh at the timing.