They just deleted a shit ton of customer data, and had to manually restore it. The system itself was still available if your data wasn't part of the deletion script.
* Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30990697
* Inside the longest Atlassian outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015813
* Atlassian products have been down for 4 days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973808
* Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210469
Article: "This study proves that smoking does not cause skin cancer."
(I'd do it myself but am just being pulled away)
Given that their outage was from April 4 to April 19 this year, they should reach their target availability on average at the earliest in the year 45222. If they keep perfect uptime in the meantime, that is.
What a misleading and cynical headline. Literally all Atlassian products I work with have some unexpected downtime every now and then.
Should be: "Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/post-incident-review-a...
Six nines of availability means no more than 30 seconds downtime per year.
Maybe the fault tolerance of one system isn't such a big deal if you depend on 30 other systems?
complete region fail? How often does that happen?
