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Yea I was wondering about that comment too. I mean you can do both. Your status page should be static, updated by a service which both polls and accepts information from your services. You ideally want to go yellow if one of the two fails.

But yes, in general, the status page and status services should be entirely on their own independent infrastructure; and in a different data centre. A number of providers offer independent status page services. If your entire company runs off Digital Ocean, your status page/services should probably be running on Linode or AWS or whatever.
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> 1. ensure it does not depend on your infra (if your api server goes down - it should not take down your status api with it)

Many people forget DNS in the equation.

If it's on a subdomain of your regular site, it will go down in case the domain is accidentally/maliciously transferred or legal authorities seize/block it (we're seeing the extremely long arm of the US law enforcement with Mr. Dotcom, as well as Erdogan and other dictators or the Chinese firewall).

If it's on a different domain that's on the same DNS hoster (e.g. Amazon's Route 36, or for that matter your own hoster!) you're screwed if the DNS fails.

If it's via the same registrar, you're screwed if someone obtains access to your registrar account (this once again includes law enforcement).

Obviously this also holds true for the TLD itself - e.g. imagine Verisign (holding .com and .net) has problems, you want a .info, for example.

Conclusion: different datacenter/provider for the HTTP server part, different DNS provider(s), different TLD. For the datacenter and DNS provider level you can use high-availability (multiple different NS entries, multiple different servers), this can also protect from legal overreach.

Also, your status page may have a negligible load as long as your service is operating fine, but people tend to go to status pages and manically press Cmd+R until there's a green light - so best use nginx/lighttpd with static pages and minimal assets only.

If you're running HTTPS on your main site and you do choose to name it "status.mydomain.com", also deploy HTTPS on your status page - else people visiting status.mydomain.com may transmit session cookies in cleartext in case you forgot the SECURE flag or the client does not honor this (for whatever reason).

Oh, and do buy a separate HTTPS cert instead of using your usual wildcard cert or your primary cert with the status page as SAN, so your status page stays up when your primary cert expires...
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Yep, I can absolutely agree with that. It's not just the intuition that matters, the deeper details are important too.
Sales Department: "We require 100% uptime! Can you do that?"

AWS Department: "Wellll, if we don't change the status to red, it's as if we were up all the time!"
This looks very similar to the method I used back in high school, and the fastest I ever got with it was 66 seconds, which is abysmal by speed-cubing standards but it impressed my friends and family.
The selling point of Node.js is asynchronous I/O. I'm sure you mean bandwidth rather than network latency - in which case that is really not a limiting factor when running in a datacenter (40 Gbps in at Linode for example).
That's good practice, sure, but their problem was even more fundamental than that. Their status page was dependent on the service it was reporting on being up. That fails the most basic requirement of a status page.
Making the UX not shit is a great start.

Twitter is really an unpleasant site to use for following discussions of any sort. When I click a thread-view for a post, I want to see a clear tree-view of all of the posts and replies like any other sane website, not the current flat-layout bullshit wherein you have no clue what the chronology of anything is, or who is responding to what.

There are a lot of good ideas in this thread for how twitter can refocus and monetize itself, but I think before all that you need to make it a site that more people enjoy using beyond its original use case of "waiting at the airport -- hmu".
> Since they will "assess" where you fit best.

Disclaimer: I work for Google

At Google this just isn't true unless we are talking about new grads. After you pass the interviews, you have to do team matching, where you will have informal 2 way interviews with prospective teams. Only after you find a team that you like and that likes you can you get an offer, assuming your application is approved.

It's definitely not a case of sticking you in a team without your input. It's true that at the interview stage you won't know, but by the time you have an offer you know what team you'll be on.

I believe at Facebook you have even more freedom. You get to go to boot camp for 3 months and after that get to choose what team you want to be on. I haven't worked there so this is just based off what recruiters and friends have told me though so hopefully someone else can correct me or elaborate.
Duplicate facebook (private feeds) and sell adds like facebook. Facebook is just going to keep growing their pages and take over twitter anyways, so they don't have a choice.
But isn't figuring this out part of the !!FUN!! ?
Foursquare managed to do this by migrating the original functionality to Swarm and pivoting the flagship product to something more monetizable.

Arguably it saved the company from going under while still enabling the original functionality for those who wanted to use it.

FWIW I'm not a sportsball fan either, but you can't argue that those of us with MS-DOS and Fidonet are in the minority. Sport is a super-majority content area that is very brand and advertiser friendly.
Not saying my scale is the the same at all - but the fact they can't do something so simple that I can do it as a single individual is embarrassing at best.

Simple solutions to this do scale - Linode and DigitalOcean don't have such issues for example - and while they're not Amazon scale, they are quite large and I'd say they prove the concept.
We need a distributed web alternative ~ perhaps built on IPFS with maybe blockchain-based DNS...
That only tells you whether there is someone in the middle, it doesn't tell you that the party on the other end is the party you intend to communicate with.
and #3 explains why they are OK with that. they've always been up front about that.
One explanation might be that they use an internal tool to update the status page definitions, and parts of that tool are hosted on S3. Or that the status definitions themselves are hosted on S3 (and then read and transformed into the HTML page everyone sees)
From https://status.aws.amazon.com/:
"Update at 12:52 AM PST: We are seeing recovery for S3 object retrievals, listing and deletions. We continue to work on recovery for adding new objects to S3 and expect to start seeing improved error rates within the hour."

(I think the AM means PM)
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And yet people think I'm crazy for wanting to wrap get time functions so code can be tested...
I believe it was an explicit design goal. They wanted new employees joining from straight out of college to be effective within Google's codebase as soon as possible. Therefore the learning curve is pretty low if you already know another mainstream programming language.
Yes, and look at the avg response times. It looks likely that the webserver can't handle the load. The number of concurrent requests should be limited.
"The list of things we want to optimize for is finite, there is some ordering to it, and the impact of various actions on those things is, in principle, calculable."

I think you might be surprised at the diversity of answers you get for this, particularly if you actually get people's unfiltered opinions and not what they think you want to hear. Try it, sometime - ask 20 random people (not connected to yourself) what their biggest problem is and what they most care about in their life. You'll get some commonalities (earning a living is a big one, as is social acceptance & validation), but as soon as you start digging into how do you wish to earn a living and what do you consider an ideal world, it very rapidly diverges.

"It's only when people start pushing their stupid agendas and start putting their personal interests in focus that the whole thing gets "difficult"."

That's called "being human". What would you rather they do, defer to your agenda?
I think people are much more aware of it since Snowden. And, as with all knowledge, people have chosen to respond in different ways. Some have become much more privacy-minded and actively seek out like-minded products and companies. Others haven't because it's not that important to them, which is their prerogative.

> I don't think people's ignorance is a good reason to not protect them.

Even if there are some who are completely in the dark about privacy, this mindset would lead to regulation protecting people from literally everything, as there will always be people ignorant of something. I don't think it's the right default stance to take.

> We should not be forced into such a choice and the only way that will happen is regulation.

We have a right to privacy in the sense that we can choose not to use a product or service that invades our privacy. But we can't force our right to privacy on others.

The good news is, if there's a market for privacy-minded products, entrepreneurs will provide for that market. And I believe there is a market, because there's an increasing amount of privacy-minded alternatives.

> EDIT: then again, this will never happen, because where do you think the gov gets their information from!

Hah, this we can agree on! And I think it highlights an important point: How can we trust government to protect our privacy when they've been the biggest aggressor against our privacy?
> That's exactly the one thing that working in the public service CAN'T provide you.

Counterexample: In Germany university professors are part of the public service. They (as probably every tenured university professor nearly anywhere worldwide) do have lots of freedom in the research they do etc.
They've managed to already for it for NFL and MLB rights, and there's plenty of cheaper rights out there and up for grabs. Netflix didn't start producing original content to begin with, but Twitter could ramp their way up to obtaining a lot of the crown jewels of sport.
Heroku seems to suffer from this too
I don't understand why radio wouldn't be the absolute first option. It's also not clear if you're assuming cel service is also out.

The canonical answer is radio, professional and ham. There are entire events dedicated to amateur radio emergency responses.
Not if you're the unfortunate pedestrian or cyclist who finds themselves on the wrong side of the "accident with a car" equation.
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Perhaps they need to hire Sally Yates or John Ashcroft to get to the bottom of this now?
Our services in us-west-2 have been up the whole time.

I think the problem is globally accessible APIs are impacted. As others have noted, if you can use region/AZ-specific hostnames to connect, you can get though to S3.

CloudFront is faithfully serving up our existing files even from buckets in US-East.
Ghostery has recently been aquired by Cliqz¹, which is a German company and presumably will have to abide by German law in regards to data protection.

① https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquire...
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No surprise the guy who made it went on to create this little company called DeepMind...
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> Secondly, remember that broadly the point of philosophy is to make things not philosophy. In extremely simplistic historical terms, once natural philosophy becomes rigorous it becomes science, once philosophy of language became rigorous it became linguistics, and today we're seeing philosophy of mind turn to neuroscience.

This is absolutely not correct, and elucidates little but the prejudices of the answerer. Philosophy of language has /not/ become linguistics, philosophy of mind has /not/ become neuroscience, and only a subset of natural philosophy has become natural science.

The philosophical questions discussed by Socrates have elided the grasp of both dogmatic rigor and empiricism for twenty-four hundred years, and there seems to be absolutely no reason to expect this to change.

The answerer has either no actual grasp of the history or content of philosophy, or has simply decided, apparently by fiat, to discard all but the most narrow positivism-flavored slice as nonsense.
AWS is claiming that Simple Storage (US Standard) is starting to come back up as of 12:54 PM PST.
Network latency would be a valid concern for avg. time/req. not for throughput (necessarily)
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companies, saving beaucoup dollars [we all love our
insurance companies, don't we?]

The problem with single player is exactly that it would put the government in the same position as insurers. It'll give people even more reason to resent government.

The fact that people still believe that both the VA and the USPS are prime examples of government gone _wrong_ should tell you everything about how well a national single-payer system would work out. Even if it was a success by the numbers, it would never be a political success. The political costs would be tremendous and perpetual.

Look at Social Security. Most conservative voters think it's a broken system, even though by the numbers it's one of the most successful and well-run programs anywhere in the world, public or private.

The baby boomer gap is easily fixed by adjusting the age of retirement, which was precisely how the system was designed to operate from the very beginning. But in the present political climate politicians 1) avoid proper maintenance while 2) simultaneously blaming "government" for the prospective short fall purely of their own creation.

The only politically viable single-payer system would be state based. There's no European Union-wide single-payer system, either.

Funding it, though, raises all sorts of problems. It's difficult for states to fund such a system independently because the Federal government soaks up so many tax dollars to spend on the military and pre-existing health programs. It's extremely difficult as a political matter to both devolve powers _and_ the requisite tax dollars back to the states. At the same time, improving the function and efficiency of federal programs is difficult given a ruling party which actively tries to sabotage those programs, even though they're politically _unable_ even among themselves to make the hard decisions that make the alternative--devolution--feasible.
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Well, at least our decision to split services has paid off. All of our web app infrastructure is on AWS, which is currently down, but our status page [0] is on Digital Ocean, so at least our customers can go see that we are down!

A pyrrhic victory... ;)

[0] - http://status.hrpartner.io

EDIT UPDATE: Well, I spoke too soon - even our status page is down now, but not sure if that is linked to the AWS issues, or simply the HN "hug of death" from this post! :)

EDIT UPDATE 2: Aaaaand, back up again. I think it just got a little hammered from HN traffic.
I might end up doing the following --

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It's because centralization is really, really convenient when it works correctly. And most of the time, it does. It's just when it breaks it's really, really bad.
Also, cross-region replication is a new-ish thing: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cross-region-replicatio...
The self-driving car thing was dumb even if Uber could make it work. They have no advantage there. Uber's main thing is a network of freelance drivers with their own cars. Anyone else can build a dang app and market it.

And others have huge advantages in the kind of infrastructure and technical expertise that would be necessary to build and run a self-driving cab company. Uber can beg for VC cash, but that's about it.
Maybe they are flushing out the bad stories that are out there?
That makes sense. Hadn't heard about the Target news.
> It would be better to try to find a buyer at the current price

It would be even better to find a buyer at ten times the current price! Unfortunately, reality isn't so pliant.

Twitter had, as of the end of 2016, $3.8bn of cash and short-term investments on their balance sheet [1]. They also have $500MM of current liabilities and $1.6bn of long-term debt. This leaves $1.7bn of "free" cash.

Excluding financing activities, Twitter's operations and investments have lost about $450MM a year for the past three years ($1.0bn in 2014, $520MM in 2015 and a net gain of $165MM in 2016). So we're talking a few years until Twitter's face meets dirt.

It's a better bet to wait than lock yourself into an unsustainable valuation.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&fstype=ii&ei=UO...
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There are so many factors at play in team and client environments, so the best benchmark to use is your own productivity as a programmer.

1. Solving problems for the Nth time instead of the first leads to substantial gains in productivity, easily 10X gains on your first attempt.

2. Architectural decisions add another multiplier on the above: picking the wrong database type, structuring and reorganising your models, spending time to design ahead vs coding right away, all can /10 or 10X your project easily from fixes and re-dos alone - combine both 1 and 2, and you have potential 100X gains.

3. Risk-distributing the project work: eliminating the worst 5% as the author says, and/or writing the most complex parts first to reduce risk of massive rewrites in case something doesn't meet expectations in its most critical functionality.

4. Having competent business requirements providers who won't move the ground beneath your feet. You can be 10X or 100X more productive when writing new code, and that much slower when rewriting someone else's bad decisions. It's no different than trying to build a skyscraper on foundations built for a garage.

Stack the above as A x B x C x D and you can see why you might be able to beat your past self 10X or 100X and more between projects. Having teammates who can beat you is even better if you can learn from them and accelerate your own progress by skipping time consuming mistakes.
Yes, I'm familiar with the long tail ;) The problem is that Twitter has proven that it's incredibly hard to monetize this kind of content at a level that the public markets demand.

The reality is Twitter has failed as a business more than anything and this is about repositioning Twitter as a business that can be monetized.
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This is really amazing!

I'm currently downloading it on my phone now but from what you described its like THE app that I have been waiting for. I love the anonymity aspect and the fact that the app does not require any permissions. Its just great!

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A "big win-win" for who though? Health care insurance companies are probably among the biggest beneficiaries of the current system and contribute large sums to both parties to ensure it's continued existence.
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I think Twitter could beat Reddit as the front page of the internet. They could easily expand their trending information and turn it into automated events and stories. It looks like they do this a little bit. But if they did it a lot more it would suddenly become way more interesting. Group it by hashtags or categories and you can suddenly see stories that really interest you.

That's the draw of Reddit (and even Hacker News). You immediately see what's really popular on the internet right now.
Unfortunately, that driver is about to find out what "two party consent" for recordings means.
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"But it is a thing"

If you can't turn it into money or growth (which Twitter is failing at right now) it won't be a thing for much longer. Twitter exists primarily as a public company to make money not to provide a service to niche communities.
That makes more sense (since I was listening to it in the context of a conference session, I'm not sure if I heard a distinctive term being used, though I'm sure they're careful about the language they use)
One of these comments would have been ok, especially if you added relevant substantive information. But at this point you're spamming the thread, so please stop.
This guy comes across as a quintessential douche.
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I miss FoxPro from pre-visual days (2.5).
Heroku as well: https://status.heroku.com/
I am talking on SELinux in the host which would totally prevent this exploit as SELinux would not allow you to browse the host. You seem to say that nobody does that. libvirt uses SELinux out of the box to do exactly that.
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The s3 outage covered all regions.
Does that apply to being recorded in a public location (and would the driver's cab count)?

Also, for all we know there could be a sign in the black car that says, "Smile you're on candid camera!".
also docker makes it trivial to link a bunch of swarm hosts together, scaling this across multiple machines would basically be free as he added them to the swarm.
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