[140095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Amazon diagnosis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Sun May 1 17:22:52 2011
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 16:22:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DBDA17C.2040303@tiedyenetworks.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:56 -0700
> From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Amazon diagnosis
>
> On 04/29/2011 12:35 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> > http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/
> >
> > ___
>
>
> So, in a nut shell, Amazon had a single point of failure which touched
> off this entire incident.
>
> I am still waiting for proof that single points of failure can
> realistically be completely eliminated from any moderately complicated
> network environment / application. So far, I think murphy is still
> winning on this one.
this was a classical case of _O'Brien's_Law_ in action -- which states,
rather pithily:
"Murphy...
was an OPTIMIST!!"
