Also: even if Millenials were becoming more conservative (which would be very strange for a lot of economic reasons alone), the definition of “minority” held by the media may not really apply if nearly half of the generation identifies as non-white. (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/archives/2015-pr/cb15-113.ht...)
Respectfully, this totally ignores that the funding for most things in this country comes right out of the cities. To use your terminology, "left leaning" places are ~70% of GDP.
Also, just because some guys in rural areas collect guns compulsively doesn't mean they are remotely capable of becoming an organized militia.
This feels like an unreasonable expectation for the people who would be reporting to him.
If someone in your future/present management chain wrote a "I think people like slibhb are bad at this job" missive somewhere, would you then feel the need to wait for examples of bias?
Article title is actually "Introducing Transfer Appliance: Sneakernet for the cloud era", can someone change how it's presented here? This was not a good improvised title.
Take a moment to look at the construction of this report.
There is no easily readable timeline. It is not discoverable from anywhere outside of social media or directly searching for it. As far as I know, customers were not emailed about this - I certainly wasn't.
You're an important business, AWS. Burying outage retrospectives and live service health data is what I expect from a much smaller shop, not the leader in cloud computing. We should all demand better.
Also notably missing is the "we will automatically refund all affected customers" line that we'd expect from somebody who wants to provide excellent service.
A graphical illustration of the service dependencies they were talking about would have been nice as well.
If you request it and provide evidence that they find compelling.
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Interesting observation. Maybe the answer is it that a behemoth like AWS does this because they _can_ get away with it. In contrast to AWS's cascading failures, the GitLab outage was a mere blip. Because they are several orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon, however, they had to be painfully transparent during their actual restore operations and in the post-moterm.
AWS has more implicit trust that this won't happen again, since they've never (I think?) had something like this happen, so just a few lines about fixing the tool that let all the nodes shutdown is enough to restore confidence.
Emails seem to be going out. I got one a while ago. I suspect this was an initial response geared towards the general audience and a more specific technical response will be forthcoming.
Without some direct information from Apple, it's perfectly valid to wonder if they were manipulated in some way. There aren't any facts available to us that point in one direction or the other.
Yeah CloudFlare is not a hosting provider, so that piece seems erroneous. They are on the CDN line below, I just don't understand why they ended up on this line. Maybe because people's DNS points at CloudFlare?
That's correct, but it's very difficult to determine the hosting environment if you're using a CDN. I have a write up on my blog at https://www.gra.pe/?p=36. But the idea is that if you know the hosting IP, you now where the IP sits (ASN). If you determine the ASN, you know which provider is being used.
To add to this - what they probably did was run an nslookup or dig against the domains themselves. And whatever IP resolved for those domains, they checked who owned that IP space. With a CDN, it won't show AWS, it'll show the CDN.
Can you link to where they admit to anything more than the possibility of wrongdoing?
What they're saying appears to be "we involved humans, we acknowledge humans can be biased, we will remove some human involvement going forward" which is very different than "we hid stories from sources we don't like."
Some conservative groups (and the author of this article, seemingly) would have you think they acknowledged that they did something wrong but I only see them stating the opposite.
Also: even if Millenials were becoming more conservative (which would be very strange for a lot of economic reasons alone), the definition of “minority” held by the media may not really apply if nearly half of the generation identifies as non-white. (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/archives/2015-pr/cb15-113.ht...)