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by ceejayoz 459 days ago
Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.
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riffic 459 days ago
I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.

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Hamuko 459 days ago
There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?
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