CDNs should be forbidden. If a site is slow, thats because the site has too much shit on it. throwing more hardware at it does not fix the problem, quite the contrary in fact.
@Viss The internet is a resilient network. But it's hard. and this industry's usual answer to hard is.. we can do that for you! And then competition being what it is... You end up here..
COMPANY: We don’t want to host copies of all these JS libraries ourselves! WTF!?! Use whatever free CDN you find. ME: Production systems will go down if these rando CDNs aren’t available for *any* reason. You OK with that? COMPANY: 🦗 🦗🦗
Thing is, downdetector is still working fine in order for you to make this point.
Perhaps the internet is exactly as robust and resilient as it claims, but these capitalist sites with their insane requirements and user loads that *require* these massive meta-networks of dumb data delivery servers, maybe they are not so well-thought-out as the underlying infrastructure that is perfectly capable of watching them burn out regularly.
Outage limited to the US east coast. Seems resilient from over here… One region of one CDN can go down without dragging other parts of the net down with it.
My favorite two misconceptions about computing: "Processors are cheap and network is reliable".
No, and no. My computer is not your playground which you can spend my processor cycles because you didn't want to write proper code that day, and no, network is not reliable just because TCP retransmission is a thing (which you don't use because you're addicted to UDP's low latency since you don't optimize your network code to begin with).
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in reply to rolltime • • •ME: Production systems will go down if these rando CDNs aren’t available for *any* reason. You OK with that?
COMPANY: 🦗 🦗🦗
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in reply to rolltime • • •Well, corporate websites are not the internet… which kept working just fine. So yes, IT'S ACTUALLY a resilient network…
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in reply to rolltime • • •Thing is, downdetector is still working fine in order for you to make this point.
Perhaps the internet is exactly as robust and resilient as it claims, but these capitalist sites with their insane requirements and user loads that *require* these massive meta-networks of dumb data delivery servers, maybe they are not so well-thought-out as the underlying infrastructure that is perfectly capable of watching them burn out regularly.
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in reply to rolltime • • •Seems resilient from over here… One region of one CDN can go down without dragging other parts of the net down with it.
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in reply to rolltime • • •decentralised*
*not really 😁
Inga stands with 🇺🇦🇵🇸
in reply to rolltime • • •"the fediverse is a resilient network"
the fediverse when one hetzner goes down:
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in reply to rolltime • • •My favorite two misconceptions about computing: "Processors are cheap and network is reliable".
No, and no. My computer is not your playground which you can spend my processor cycles because you didn't want to write proper code that day, and no, network is not reliable just because TCP retransmission is a thing (which you don't use because you're addicted to UDP's low latency since you don't optimize your network code to begin with).
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in reply to rolltime • • •A consequence of modern late-stage capitalism's penchant for acquisition & centralization.
As the monopolies form, so do the single points of failure.
Cases in point: Amazon, CloudFlare, Dyn
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