AWS makes it annoying to be resilient as AZs aren't transparent to their users, so I'm more surprised some were prepared for it.
It seems to me these day people are OK with AWS going down and just blaming it on AWS rather than on themselves for not being prepared for big outages.
"Oh, nothing we can do because AWS/Cloudflare is down"
> AWS makes it annoying to be resilient as AZs aren't transparent to their users
What does transparent mean here? AWS is super clear what resources are zonal and provides tons of guidance around making things multi-AZ. AZ outages aren't exactly frequent but they're reasonably likely.
Being susceptible to AZ (or region) outages is very much an architectural decision. Or a bug that needs to be fixed (I'm sure Coinbase didn't YOLO single-AZ, they've undoubtedly learned about some edge case that needs to be fixed). Sure it may not be worth the cost/complexity for some systems but resiliency is like job one for anything in the cloud that costs money when it's down.
Transparent as a system/box can be, meaning that you can't see / know about it. (Yeah, I guess you can read that not transparent as obscure in disclosure of how their system works, but it shouldn't make much sense)
> AWS is super clear what resources are zonal and provides tons of guidance around making things multi-AZ.
Yeah, they allow people cheaping out for zonal resources and then going down with their zone.
I've worked in edtech and it's terrible. The margins are awful. The PE consolidation hasn't helped. Getting leadership to pay anything but lip service to security was impossible.
Because he had them on an OpenAI device and when OpenAI lawyers saw them, they knew they would be penalized more if they hid them. This happens a lot, I believe it was a Sony lawsuit where personal emails on work devices exposed a number of affairs unrelated to the case because it was all part of discovery.
He kept them on his work laptop, and they were swept up in discovery. Don't ignore your security team when they talk about data protection and not doing personal business on work devices.
Even if it were a notebook, it could end up in court. If someone sees you writing in a book and talks about it during discovery, you can end up with a court order to produce that book.
Discovery can even be more broad - "provide all written or recorded messages involving this decision" and if you "forget" about your private diary and it's later found out, that's a paddlin'.
Absolutely, they can be but your lawyers at least have a leg to stand on to push for exclusion. If they are just sitting next to the PowerPoint you gave on Tuesday, they will definitely be included.
People seem to have memory holed the decades-long fossil-fuel-funded campaign to convince the world that solar and wind didn't work, that they were expensive boondoggles, and, my personal fave, that the people pushing them were intentionally trying to destroy the world economy because they were secret Marxists.
And it eventually worked after a lot of time and effort but only on Republican voters, 1/3rd of whom now think solar and wind are no better and 1/3rd think worse for the environment(!) than alternative power sources.
Trump was not unusual in saying insane things about wind power in right-wing politics and media.
The political consensus that climate change even existed broke down around this time due to the Tea Party and Koch's funding.
We ended up an Azure Pipelines kinda by default because it was there and mostly paid for with the intention of later migrating, but it's been fine. Boring but stable and functional.
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