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And that this was unironically written in the same post mortem: “We are good at distributed systems.”

There’s a lack of awareness there.




Well, they did distribute their systems. Some were in the running DC, some were not ;)


Their uptime was eventually consistent


haha. The control plane was eventually consistent after 3 days


They are good at systems that are distributed; they are very bad at ensuring systems they sell thier custoners are distributed.


They distributed the faults across all their customers....


Good != infallible




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