Re:InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notifi...
by steveBK123 on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:52AM
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It's crazy the last email blast was ~6 weeks ago.
And the shutdown isn't even a month / quarter end, so seems even less like a billing cycle thing.
There's so many more mature ways to do a graceful paid service shutdown. Disable reads first so people get errors & contact support. Then disables writes as well. Somewhere a few weeks later you can consider deleting data.
As others have said, I've worked at megacorps with internal systems that had more mature migrations than this. Honestly I have run internal apps at sub-1000 employee firms where we did various forms of scream tests and soft deletes before MONTHS later, even daring to delete data on disk.
And the shutdown isn't even a month / quarter end, so seems even less like a billing cycle thing.
There's so many more mature ways to do a graceful paid service shutdown. Disable reads first so people get errors & contact support. Then disables writes as well. Somewhere a few weeks later you can consider deleting data.
As others have said, I've worked at megacorps with internal systems that had more mature migrations than this. Honestly I have run internal apps at sub-1000 employee firms where we did various forms of scream tests and soft deletes before MONTHS later, even daring to delete data on disk.