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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by iso1631 on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:09AM (#27231299)
Running a simple service on a single server for a year without issue is not hard.

Running a service like slack is hard, but modern HN attitude is if you can't scale to a billion users your architecture is rubbish.

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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by caturopath on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:34AM (#27234483)
Running a service isn't hard.

Going a year without any sort of outage is. For example, if you're just serving from one place, any network outage between the users and that place will be an outage -- seamless failover is pointlessly hard and very few shops do this for their internally-hosted services.

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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by iso1631 on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:04PM (#27239949)
Depends how you define a network outage. One of my transatlantic circuits has been a bit ropey - had a 2 second outage on it a couple of nights ago, does that count as a network outage?

If a user has a local network problem, that's not a loss in the service. If multiple users do that's an issue. My home broadband went out for 3 minutes at 23:33:43 GMT on May 13th, but then I wouldn't run a service needing 24/7 on my home broadband.

My frickin nasdrive has a better uptime than slack.

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