Re:Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
by Johnny555 on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:04PM
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I think Slack did not actually know how to handle it: they outsourced the handling of this; they passed the buck
The issue was a transit gateway, a core network component. If they weren't in the cloud, this would have been a router, so they "outsourced" it in the same way an on-prem service outsources routing to Cisco. I guess the difference is they might have had better visibility into the Cisco router and known it was overloaded.
The issue was a transit gateway, a core network component. If they weren't in the cloud, this would have been a router, so they "outsourced" it in the same way an on-prem service outsources routing to Cisco. I guess the difference is they might have had better visibility into the Cisco router and known it was overloaded.