"100% Uptime"
I'm with Hund. It was only monitoring the cached, unauthenticated news page, which was up throughout the downtime. However, it now monitors the authenticated news landing as well.
Readit NewslaCour commented on Hacker News Has Degraded Service hn.hund.io/... · Posted by u/iloveplants
https://hn.hund.io/ Is a status page, no idea if official or not, but it didn't register here for some reason.
I didn't read the post text, it's identified there haha, my bad! I wish the text post text wasn't grey, I gloss over it too easily.
This was monitoring the unauthenticated news page, which is why it didn't catch it. It now monitors authentication as well. It is not official, and was made by a co-founder years ago.
I'm with Hund. Our hn.hund.io page did not catch this because it was requesting the cached, unauthenticated page. It now monitors authentication as well.
laCour commented on Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10 stripe.com/rcas/2019-07-1... · Posted by u/gr2020
laCour commented on Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10 stripe.com/rcas/2019-07-1... · Posted by u/gr2020
In many HA setups, you're supposed to not have to care if any single thing goes down because it should auto recover
The article said that the node stalled in a way that was unforseen which may have caused standard recovery mechanisms to silently fail.
Right, but they didn't recover speedily. To have the cluster in such a state for so long sounds like poor monitoring to me because this can knowingly interfere with an election later.
laCour commented on Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10 stripe.com/rcas/2019-07-1... · Posted by u/gr2020
"[Four days prior to the incident] Two nodes became stalled for yet-to-be-determined reasons."
How did they not catch this? It's super surprising to me that they wouldn't have monitors for this.
laCour commented on SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora blog.pandora.com/us/siriu... · Posted by u/prostoalex
The only amazing music streaming product I've seen was already acquired and killed off: Rdio.
It was heads and shoulders above the rest, especially when it came to international content and recommendations. Their recommendations were amazing.
If I'm not mistaken, Rdio's engineering team helped build Pandora's on-demand service. I've switched to it from Spotify after using Rdio in the past. Its recommendations feel similar to Rdio's, but the interface is a bit lacking. There aren't general recommendations. Instead, you must build a playlist and then you can add a set of recommended songs to the playlist. Of course, there are also radio stations.