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by thr0w 207 days ago
> But if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad.

In my direct experience, this isn't true if you're running something even vaguely mission-critical for your customers. Your customer's workers just know that they can't do their job for the day, and your customer's management just knows that the solution they shepherded through their organization is failing.
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acedTrex 207 days ago
It's really quite funny, many of the ACTUALLY vital systems to running the world as we know it are running off of very different softwares. Cloudflare appears to have a much higher % of non vital systems running on it than say something like akamai.

If akamai went down i have a feeling you'd see a whole lot more real life chaos.

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kazen44 207 days ago
i also find the sentiment of "well we use a third party so blame them" completely baffeling.

if you run anything even remotely mission critical, not having a plan B which is executable and of which you are in control (and a plan C) will make you look completely incompetent.

There are very, very few events which some people who run mission critical systems accept as force majeur. Most of those are of the scale "national emergency" or worse.

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nobody9999 206 days ago
>There are very, very few events which some people who run mission critical systems accept as force majeur. Most of those are of the scale "national emergency" or worse.

And why should anyone be surprised? It's been about 80 years since "The buck stops here."[0] had any real relevance. And more's the pity.

[0] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-buck-stops-here.html

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