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Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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797 points burnerbob | 1 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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wg0 ◴[21 Jul 23 06:32 UTC] No.36810659[source]▶
Not a sarcastic or rhetorical question - how come the three big A clouds or even smaller ones (Hetzner,my favorite) are mostly so stable (give or take some outages) and anyone knows their internal engineering, architecture and practices to keep systems that much stable?
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1. marcinzm ◴[21 Jul 23 10:27 UTC] No.36812149[source]▶
Scale the technical difficulty and innovation of the product with the size and competency of the team. The market will always say they want more and the job of the company leaders is to know when to say no. AWS did not begin with everything it offers now but rather started with fairly boring things (even for the time) that they expanded over time. This was after a decade of learning how to do this internally so they weren't starting from scratch.