History's Major Downtimes: Lessons from the Biggest Outages
from les@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 21 Oct 13:05
https://beehaw.org/post/16659609

Online service reliability is crucial in the digital age. Even robust systems can face unexpected outages, affecting various platforms. Let’s explore the insights!

Are there any major outages that you remember?

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les@beehaw.org on 21 Oct 13:19 next collapse

In 2022, Gmail was down for about 6 hours.

tardigrada@beehaw.org on 21 Oct 16:57 next collapse

Microsoft/Crowdstrike last summer.

SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org on 21 Oct 17:04 next collapse

No, but this is why we think centralising the operations of the internet isn’t a good idea. The web was meant to be decentralised and federated, yet it has become centralised and has mostly a few walled gardens.

The fediverse and matrix etc may not be perfect, but technically they are some of the better ideas in terms of ensuring if one server or even quite a few servers go down the whole of a network/service doesn’t.

zqwzzle@lemmy.ca on 21 Oct 17:05 next collapse

That one time cocoa pods (a dependency management system for iOS development) was essentially doing a DDNS when their spec repo was using GitHub as a CDN. blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting…

dap@lemmy.onlylans.io on 21 Oct 20:47 next collapse

The Downtime Project is a pretty interesting podcast that covers some large outages and discusses their post-mortem analysises. Worth a listen IMO, very interesting stuff and some good lessons to learn.

EtzBetz@feddit.org on 22 Oct 15:37 next collapse

My VPS provider had an outage a few months back, for a few hours. Luckily there was nothing big running on my server, only a discord bot, 6tunnel and my wip website.

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 22 Oct 16:00 collapse

Going beyond “that you remember”, Wikipedia has a list.