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Re:GitHub Down by wavemode on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @05:40PM (#45973235)
Well, just a few weeks ago we weren't able to connect to RDS for several hours. That's way more downtime than we ever had at the company I worked for 10 years ago, where the DB was just running on a computer in the basement.

Anecdotal, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:GitHub Down by sshine on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:02PM (#45973990)
An anecdote that repeats.

Most software doesn’t need to be distributed. But it’s the growth paradigm where we build everything on principles that can scale to world-wide low-latency accessibility.

A UNIX pipe gets replaced with a $1200/mo. maximum IOPS RDS channel, bandwidth not included in price. Vendor lock-in guaranteed.

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