On 6/30/12 4:50 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, jamie rishaw wrote:
you know what's happening even more?
..Amazon not learning their lesson.
I was not giving anyone a free pass or attempting to shrug off the outage. I was just stating that there are many reasons why things break. I haven't seen anything official on this yet, but this looks a lot like a cascading failure.
But haven't they all been cascading failures? One can't just say "well it's a huge system, therefore hard". Especially when they claimed to have learned their lesson from previous outwardly similar failures; either they were lying, or didn't really learn anything, or the scope simply exceeds their grasp. If it's too hard for entity X to handle a large system (for whatever "large" means to them), then X needs to break it down into smaller parts that they're capable of handling in a competent manner. ~Seth