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Re:Wikipedia Outage by tux3 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:04AM (#34893684)
They do have a pretty complex infra with redundancy, extensive caching, the whole works. But I think they use a relatively boring, reliable stack throughout. It doesn't look like they run a lot of GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT Cloud Solutions to Supercharge™ their web-scale data blazingly.

On the plus side solid stable software can run for decades without incidents, as long as the hardware is willing. The main negative is that it's not as Supercharged™ as the latest cloud product with a 99.9% SLA, which itself relies on 5 other internal microservices with 99.9% SLA each.

Re:Wikipedia Outage by melx on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:12AM (#34893743)
5 internal microservices? I thought the Supercharged™ had deployed 256 microservices last week alone.
Re:Wikipedia Outage by fmajid on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:22AM (#34894160)
I doubt anyone at HN takes Gartner seriously, as James Plamondon (Microsoft) wrote:

> Analysts sell out - that's their business model. But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.

The question is, who is gullible enough to still believe Gartner has any value? You'd think by now even the most clueless of MBAs would have caught on.