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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by GingerMidas on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:16PM (#32558550)
From @koopajah on discord: "We don't really drop nines if one specific feature is having issues". Pretty convenient payment processing is just a "feature" of a payment infrastructure SaaS
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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by throwawaypppu on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:44PM (#32558767)
This is a bullshit and untenable position. This “one specific feature” takes out the core feature. Shameful, deceitful and reputation tarnishing position.
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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by jhugo on Monday August 22, 2022 @09:50PM (#32559626)
To be fair, it only takes out the core feature for people using Stripe Tax, which is apparently a small fraction of customers.
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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by quickthrower2 on Monday August 22, 2022 @08:18PM (#32559030)
In a OKR culture, the way to make your KR good is to add lots of useless and very simple microservices, which are always up, so the overall metric is 100%.
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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by NovemberWhiskey on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:01AM (#32564281)
If your KRs are the uptimes of your simple microservices, you're not in an OKR culture.
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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by civilized on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:38PM (#32558722)
I guess 99.999% uptime is no longer an engineer's well-earned badge of honor at Stripe. Now it's just sales puffery, like a LOWEST PRICES IN THE CITY!! sign at a discount store.

Sorry, but true class isn't just elegant rectangles decorated by various subtle shades of gray sans serif.

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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by redditor98654 on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:23PM (#32558603)
Hate it when companies do it. It should be the min of the availabilities of your APIs.
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Re:Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with... by NovemberWhiskey on Monday August 22, 2022 @07:58PM (#32558875)
a.k.a. "my probed availability ignores user journeys that are actually an important part of my product"
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