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Buckle Up For a Wild Decade in Cloud Computing

Ben Halpern on June 09, 2021

I’m sure you were affected by the Fastly outage yesterday. The company responded quickly, and it wasn’t the end of the world— But it was wild! If ...
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Lee Wynne

Having personally shut down the M6 motorway in the UK one time because of a print queue, I need to hear this story:

fun fact, I personally caused a similar but much smaller outage on Heroku one time

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Dan Silcox

Haha oops! I want to hear that story now! I broke cashless parking for the entire country for about an hour once 😅

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Lee Wynne

wat wat 😅😅

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Ben Halpern • Edited

Some will keep up with Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher’s pseudo-informed takes.

I recognize that this is an unnecessarily snarky way of putting this, but there is a bit of an uncanny valley between "the normal news" and "being in the industry and paying super close attention to the direct source material". Good tech podcasts like their show Pivot do the best job at filling that gap, but it's still mostly built on spicy takes.

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Thomas Step

fun fact, I personally caused a similar but much smaller outage on Heroku one time— but that is another story

I'd love to hear that story!

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Ben Halpern

This Fastly incident gives me a new relatable anecdote which would probably change how I describe how I more clearly tell that story, but this is a quick version of what went down.

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Lee Wynne

😅😅😅😅😅

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Doug

It's just a matter of time before data will have to live in the country in which it is collected. And then the local government will control the data.

Better start learning how to encrypt your data yourself BEFORE you upload it to the cloud.

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Dan Silcox

Facebook... conscientious stewardship over our privacy...

These two things in the same sentence made me nearly spit my coffee out :D

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Ben Halpern

I hope it was clear enough that I feel the same way.

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Aris Ripandi

So, prepare yourself! :-)

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Ben Halpern

buckle up