Remember when the Internet was supposed to be decentralised for resilience?
No, sorry, I’m not that old :P
Remember: you’re never too young to have a Vietnam flashback!
The cloud is just someone else’s computer. And that computer is busy printing AI videos of the President pooping out of a fighter jet, so now your files are inaccessible
Can you imagine this sentence 1 year ago much less 5 years ago?
One year ago? Easily.
Five years ago? Depends on whether I was visiting 4chan at the moment.
The President of course being a convicted felon and rapist, Donald J Trump.
That’s convicted felon, rapist and pedophile, Donald J Trump, to you, mr. Twopi.
I remember SLAs including ‘five nines’ ensurances. That meant 99.999% uptime or an allowance of 26 seconds of downtime a month. That would be unheard of nowadays because no cloud provider can ensure that they will have that uptime.
Amazon has so much redundancy built into EC2 that I genuinely thought they’d be able to avoid this.
I may be mistaken, but I really could’ve sworn that a lot of the really strict SLA guarantees Amazon gives assume you are doing things across availability zones and/or regions. Like they’re saying “we guarantee 99.999% of uptime across regions” sort of thing. Take this with a grain of salt, it’s something I only half remember from a long time ago.
If you properly divide your instances between providers and regions and use load balancing which uses a corum of 3 availability model then it can be zero downtime pretty fairly guaranteed.
People be cheap and easy tho, so 🤷♂️
Yup. And I think I’ll add:
What do you mean we’ve blown our yearly budget in the first month.
Screw the compute budget, the tripled team size without shipping any more features is a bigger problem here.
I’ve seen the opposite. “Oh, you moved your app to the cloud and rebuilt it to be full cicd and self healing? Cool. Your team of 15 is now 3.”
I’m not sure if you are referring to the same thread.
I’m talking about the effort to build multi region and multi cloud applications, which is incredibly difficult to pull off well. And presents seemingly endless challenges.
Not the effort to move to the cloud.
