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Re:What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error m... by transitorykris on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:43PM (#27443993)
This is not true

Edit: trying to reverse engineer the “magic”, architecture, and the failure from a varnish error message is folly, and misleads others. How do I know the comment is patently false? I ran those teams at Fastly for 3 years.

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Re:What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error m... by ntauthority on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:36AM (#27444567)
Alternately, document your 'magic architecture' in public so that people don't have to offend you or other employees of the firm by making incorrect assumptions based on the little you do show in public.

Also helps others pick up if you do go out of business or end up acquired, and before you do it even leads to a more level playing field.

However I guess a level playing field wouldn't have given you a NYSE listing... so I guess you're just being selfish?

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