colinbartlett

this is why i use arch btw

My question is if this power dynamic is different in organizations with strong unions?

users of product and visitors to our site

This app looks to be incorrectly parsing Slack and Auth0 official status page and showing incidents as ongoing that are not

And those are just the 2 that I checked.

To be fair, accurately scraping and normalizing data from status pages is really hard to to do consistently (my company has a team of 5 engineers to do it and it's a lot of work).

Pretty cool visualization.

I've been building something like this for 12 years now.

One major difference is mine does not only rely on the "official" status page but also receive millions of reports from users about outages.

So your single pane of glass can show not just known outages but emerging ones that haven't been acknowledged yet by providers.

Also supports more than 8,000 services.

I started scraping the Shopify status page every 5 minutes back in March of 2015 so I have more than 11 years of history.

This isn't the first outage and won't be the last but it's one of the most disruptive in recent memory.

I was shocked to see that a "brand name" stethoscope is $100+ and even generic ones are $30.

A single engineer should not get fired for an architectural decision that clearly had buy in from many people.

Yes because if it helps keep devices in use longer it helps reduce waste and the planetary impacts of a culture of disposable products.

The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft.

Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)

For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.

Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.

The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.

HyperCard was definitely my first taste of what would become my career in web software development.

I wasn't a Mac user at home, but school had them and I absolutely loved what I could create with HyperCard, there was nothing like it on Windows.

I also recall switching to SuperCard simply for the COLOR support, what a time.

I thought so, too. I randomly found this on Reddit and it struck a chord with me, especially as an urban dweller that absolutely despises litter and litterers.

Or any more than "full self driving" by 2017.

I do appreciate these post mortems from Cloudflare, however I wish they would include timestamps of their status page posts in their timelines.

In this case, the timeline states "IMPACT STOP" was at 20:50 UTC and the first post to their status page was 12 minutes later at 21:02 UTC:

"Cloudflare experienced a Network Route leak, impacting performance for some networks beginning 20:25 UTC. We are working to mitigate impact."

Why?

These demonstrate just how car-obsessed our society is. Depressing.

Any practical use for this IKEA data specifically?

Or just a handy open data set you could use to prove out the concept?

They do back a lot of companies. Is there any evidence that they are pushing unethical or illegal business practices on their portfolio companies at a rate higher than non-YC start ups?

Citation needed.

GitHub published a postmortem for yesterday's outage already, and the cause surprised me: They blame scrapers, or rather ONE specific scraper, for taking down GitHub for 7 hours.

Can anyone comment about how common this (apparently legal) practice is?

Even the Cloudflare status page, hosted by Atlassian Statuspage, is suffering. Probably due to the traffic crush.

Will the app requirement be disclosed at purchase everywhere? IE: If I am buying on a third-party online travel agent, will the checkout process state that in order to board the flight at the cost quoted, that I will need to have a smartphone with the app installed?