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Trysdyn, Jolteon Aspect

Discord post-mortem from a cloud engineer on the outside 

Inferences I'm taking from what I can see about the Discord/GCP outage:

1.) Discord's database and storage is effectively single homed. If they had a hot failover it woulda failed over. If they had a cold failover its cost to fail over is probably high or else they would have.

2.) Discord's DB is intolerant of single-region networking issues. Google reports 8% packet loss in one cluster in one DC, and that knocked Discord offline.

3.) Discord may or may not have backups (they better) but the restoration time for a dataset of their size would be days since it's single-homed.

4.) Discord is reliant on Google Cloud. If they had their infrastructure striped across multiple providers, see point 1.

5.) Discord has no response process for if Google Cloud just completely soils the bed, as noted by their updates saying "All we can do is wait for GCP to fix itself"

6.) Discord has no way to gracefully handle a failure between API service nodes and their monolith DB/cache. Granted the nature of the app limits what could be done, but "Wait and hope the message doesn't redline" isn't good and just increases load in a fragile situation.

Synthesis.) A major incident could knock Discord offline for days, or permanently, depending on the reliability of their backups. Absolutely have backup methods for reaching your important contacts.
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[Moved] Polychrome

Solid logic. 🥟

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Bry is Just. So Gay

Representation for intersex ppl and cis folk w unusual hormone levels, chromosomes etc
Its not just trans ladies that can grow beards or trans guys that grow boobs sex is complicated af and gender is only a thing bc we made it up

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hypnotransgirl

Imagine an evil scientist engineering a parasite that turns everyone into horny obedient girls so she can rule the world as its lesbian parasite queen

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melissa is on monads

🎶unless the person was famous before transition🎶
🎶there's literally no reason to ever include a deadname in a Wikipedia article🎶

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Hannah

my gender is

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CyclopsCaveman

a father asks his son what he’s drinking. the son says “soy milk” the dad responds, “hola milk, soy dad”

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Cybertruck Isekai

"This is a robot lady I've drawn. She has powerful claws and laser guns attached to her thighs."

"Ah, girlfriend material."

"She can kill you without trying."

"Oh!!! Wife material!"

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Femgirl Fei

I wish people could stop conflating having trouble articulating your thoughts with no knowing things. I know what I'm talking about, I just don't know how to get you to know about it!

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valid to eat fingers

boy it sure is great that every single community i'm a part of now has a single point of failure at google

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dankwraith

i am sick to death of grafting rpg mechanics onto games for no discernible reason other than to give players a false sense of progression

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xaphania :heart_cyber:

asking someone to marry you on live television isn't a proposal, it's a fucking hostage situation

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Alexis, ENDLESS HORNETS

@Anarchist_Mallrat @denikombucha image text: "ignoring and writing off southern states as unsalvageable due to regressive policies does nothing to help those fighting against such policies, and only aids further regression"

"your neighborhood isn't better just because it has brick oven pizzas and craft breweries"

(fedi protip: lots of people incl. us will not boost undescribed images! lots of people can't read text in images easily or at all, and the party isn't fun when everyone can't play)

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mx blue sky

christ. non binary people are all cute its just true, its an inescapable kind of truth

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null

if i had a cyberdeck i’d get crumbs in it on day 1

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no, we don't know what this means

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we put the 'fashion' in 'lesbian fashion disaster'

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Sunbeam Borb 🌻:pirate_flag:

Kansas City Council Unanimously Votes To Get Rid Of Bus Fares | KCUR
kcur.org/post/kansas-city-coun

#KC #publictransit #bus #publictransportation

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Alisca

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

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ActNebbish

Tired: "men are too emotional to be leaders." *replicates the sexist assumption that unemotionality is always a superior trait and is inherently associated with dominance/authority.*

Wired: "Men aren't emotional enough to be leaders." *Hot take. Asserts the value of traits devalued by patriarchy. Radically re-envisions what leadership ought to look like. Doesn't throw men who experience positive emotions intensely under the bus for being insufficiently "in-control" (read: masculine).*

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