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0 pointsdetaro4y ago0 comments

Systems failing is not evidence of systems not existing.

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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

detaroOP4y ago

We don't know, but the usual scenarios would be "issue impacts failover mechanism too", "failover mechanism overloads other system components leading to cascading failure" or "something causes failover mechanism to to think all is fine".

colesantiago4y ago

> We don't know...

So, the rarest of cases (our network isn’t serving traffic) just happened right now, and their failover system just took a snooze then, but 'it exists apparently' according to you.

Tell that the huge clients that lost sales because of this, and all you have to say is: "wE DoN'T kNoW..."

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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

detaroOP4y ago

colesantiago4y ago

> We don't know...

So, the rarest of cases (our network isn’t serving traffic) just happened right now, and their failover system just took a snooze then, but 'it exists apparently' according to you.

Tell that the huge clients that lost sales because of this, and all you have to say is: "wE DoN'T kNoW..."

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