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Ask HN: Do you track uptime of third party tools?

Posted by bgodlove88 on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.

As a developer it's not uncommon for me to investigate a problem only to discover that it's a transient issue with a third party tool.Some third party tools have status pages (AWS, Twilio, etc) and others use Twitter. However it's not a habit for me to check these pages before investigating an issue. Many have status notifications via email, slack, etc but I don't necessarily have those open...

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Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:19AM (#22734896)
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