Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by Arainach on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:39AM
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The difference between a distributed system and a monolith is that in a monolith you have some idea what your single point of failure is, but in a distributed system you don't know your dozen single points of failure until they happen in production.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by adzm on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:46AM
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I love the dependency cycles that prevent things from being started up again from scratch.
Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by temikus on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:00AM
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Google had a secret storage system back in the day, that required special encryption keys to be entered when it got re-initialised. The keys were in a safe. Guess where the combination to the safe was stored? ;)