Re:Stripe's API was down
by munchbunny on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:18PM
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I'd agree if that were actually true, but it's not.
With large enough services there is always some acceptable level of errors due to 0.001% probability events. When there's an outage, it's not usually everything down, but even 0.1% of jobs failing ends up affecting a lot of users.
Even 10% of jobs failing still isn't "down", it's "partly down", even if you have to issue credits for SLA violations and publish a public postmortem later.
With large enough services there is always some acceptable level of errors due to 0.001% probability events. When there's an outage, it's not usually everything down, but even 0.1% of jobs failing ends up affecting a lot of users.
Even 10% of jobs failing still isn't "down", it's "partly down", even if you have to issue credits for SLA violations and publish a public postmortem later.