undefined | Better HN

0 pointsmacintux4y ago0 comments

> this worldwide outage caused by them just goes to show you that Fastly does not actually have a failover system in place.

I don’t know Fastly at all, but in my experience there’s no such thing as a foolproof failover system that covers all possible scenarios.

0 comments

colesantiago4y ago

Even when they said this was a rare [0] case, they knew this case should be handled, but didn't handle it.

> or in the extremely rare case our network isn’t serving traffic.

reports also came in that this was a service configuration[1] issue, so not only there is no failover system, not even any validation automation was in place that could have prevented this.

[0] https://status.fastly.com [1] https://twitter.com/fastly/status/1402221348659814411

detaro4y ago

Systems failing is not evidence of systems not existing.

colesantiago4y ago

So why didn't the 'automatic failover' kick in during the outage? Where was it then? I don't see anything about 're-routing traffic' anywhere in the status page [0]

[0] https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 comments

colesantiago4y ago

Even when they said this was a rare [0] case, they knew this case should be handled, but didn't handle it.

> or in the extremely rare case our network isn’t serving traffic.

reports also came in that this was a service configuration[1] issue, so not only there is no failover system, not even any validation automation was in place that could have prevented this.

[0] https://status.fastly.com [1] https://twitter.com/fastly/status/1402221348659814411

detaro4y ago

Systems failing is not evidence of systems not existing.

colesantiago4y ago

So why didn't the 'automatic failover' kick in during the outage? Where was it then? I don't see anything about 're-routing traffic' anywhere in the status page [0]

[0] https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse