You're doing exactly what that article was describing, and calling Netflix's engineering team irresponsible children is a cheap insult. It's extremely insulting that in the process of saying you didn't insult them, you call them children again. So is repeatedly setting up and taking jabs at this straw man that they had no failover system at all, a year ago or last week.

You're basically saying "if I were in charge, Netflix would've been able to fail over to another region in 6 seconds". But you don't even have a fraction of the background info required to say such a thing. It doesn't matter that you've done reliability at Quantcast; Quantcast is not Netflix.