I wonder if large companies get more of a pass with outages then small ones? Bias towards authority in a way.
If a service has a big enough base an outage could almost seem like a pass for everyone. “Oo couldn’t do that this morning GITHUB was down.” Whereas if my small GitLab server was down bosses could be “well why aren’t we on GitHub like everyone else, it’s up now?”
When google calendar was down a bit ago I tried looking at random people responses on twitter and many were “whew I get out of some meetings!”
Perhaps there is some accountability for large scale outages like these but it really feels like consensus is often “shit happens” which is totally reasonable just seems like it could hurt big companies a lot less.
If a service has a big enough base an outage could almost seem like a pass for everyone. “Oo couldn’t do that this morning GITHUB was down.” Whereas if my small GitLab server was down bosses could be “well why aren’t we on GitHub like everyone else, it’s up now?”
When google calendar was down a bit ago I tried looking at random people responses on twitter and many were “whew I get out of some meetings!”
Perhaps there is some accountability for large scale outages like these but it really feels like consensus is often “shit happens” which is totally reasonable just seems like it could hurt big companies a lot less.