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I'm with Hund. It was only monitoring the cached, unauthenticated news page, which was up throughout the downtime. However, it now monitors the authenticated news landing as well.
Mistake on our part (Hund) for not monitoring authentication. This page is unofficial and was made by a co-founder several years ago.
This was monitoring the unauthenticated news page, which is why it didn't catch it. It now monitors authentication as well. It is not official, and was made by a co-founder years ago.
I'm with Hund. Our hn.hund.io page did not catch this because it was requesting the cached, unauthenticated page. It now monitors authentication as well.
Posted by
laCour on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:59PM
from the show-hn dept.
They only just clarified that monitoring was in place and they were reporting as healthy. See the comments above.
Right, but they didn't recover speedily. To have the cluster in such a state for so long sounds like poor monitoring to me because this can knowingly interfere with an election later.
"[Four days prior to the incident] Two nodes became stalled for yet-to-be-determined reasons."
How did they not catch this? It's super surprising to me that they wouldn't have monitors for this.
If I'm not mistaken, Rdio's engineering team helped build Pandora's on-demand service. I've switched to it from Spotify after using Rdio in the past. Its recommendations feel similar to Rdio's, but the interface is a bit lacking. There aren't general recommendations. Instead, you must build a playlist and then you can add a set of recommended songs to the playlist. Of course, there are also radio stations.
Lightsail instances are just T2 instances, and they are not exempt from CPU credits.
From https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/
> Lightsail uses burstable performance instances that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the additional ability to burst above the baseline.
Posted by
laCour on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:24AM
from the show-hn dept.
13:14 UTC through 15:54 UTC here.
Posted by
laCour on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:49PM
from the hund.io dept.
The biggest benefit over StatusPage.io is that our platform's design focuses on automation through integrations with third parties. StatusPage.io pages can only be automated through their direct integration with PagerDuty, or by parsing email notifications (from services like New Relic or Pingdom). We have the ability to add countless integrations with third parties for both monitoring and notifications.
Branding is important for companies, so we've chosen to offer complete white-labeling on our single plan. We leverage Let's Encrypt so that status pages can be instantly configured to use a secure custom domain.
These are just a few of the key differences, our features section outlines these and more.
Posted by
laCour on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:44PM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
laCour on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:20PM
from the hund.io dept.
You're totally right, just checked. Never even crossed my mind that they wouldn't be. Updated the post.
Posted by
laCour on Thursday January 21, 2016 @11:44PM
from the show-hn dept.
Seeing a bit of inspiration from Quora; nice idea and execution.
You're capitalizing last names, whereas names can start with lowercase letters (as does mine). The content shouldn't be pushed to the right, it's harder to read, consider moving the topic list to the right side instead. The line length isn't too bad, but reading is made much worse when it's pushed to the right because of the topic list.
Posted by
laCour on Saturday November 02, 2013 @01:38PM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
laCour on Monday April 30, 2012 @03:39PM
from the apple.com dept.
It's not yet live, though it will be at the end of this month or early January.
GitHub - Code repositories
Springloops - Deployment
Pivotal Tracker - Agile planning tool
Podio - Get work done
New Relic - Server/Application performance monitoring
Pingdom - Uptime monitoring
Blame Stella - Speed monitoring
Sendgrid - Email delivery
CloudFront - CDN
Free services:
Groove - Support tickets & chat (groovehq.com)
Trello - Organization
Stripe - Payments