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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

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swmike at swm

Jul 7, 2009, 1:24 PM

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Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> In a real crisis, redundancy rules.

... and simplicity.

It's always "fun" when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc, so
they're capable of tens or hundreds of users, so they look fine normally.
When an outage happens and people really need the information and want it,
things stop working.

I've been advocating a distributed system with static HTML pages being
generated and pushed out when things change. Huge load capability, you can
put it anycasted at multiple IXes so it's geographically and ISP
resiliant, larger ISPs can even request to get their own mirror. Keeping
it simple.

No takers yet though, people seem to have too much confidence in
complicated, centralized, nice looking solutions.

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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike [at] swm

brandon.galbraith at gmail

Jul 7, 2009, 1:28 PM

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Re: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) [In reply to]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson<swmike [at] swm> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
>> In a real crisis, redundancy rules.
>
> ... and simplicity.
>
> It's always "fun" when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc, so
> they're capable of tens or hundreds of users, so they look fine normally.
> When an outage happens and people really need the information and want it,
> things stop working.
>
> I've been advocating a distributed system with static HTML pages being
> generated and pushed out when things change. Huge load capability, you can
> put it anycasted at multiple IXes so it's geographically and ISP
resiliant,
> larger ISPs can even request to get their own mirror. Keeping it simple.
>
> No takers yet though, people seem to have too much confidence in
> complicated, centralized, nice looking solutions.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike [at] swm
>
>

http://www.coralcdn.org/

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Brandon Galbraith
Mobile: 630.400.6992

swmike at swm

Jul 7, 2009, 1:35 PM

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Re: Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was : Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle) [In reply to]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:

> http://www.coralcdn.org/

Nice, looks very much like the thing I was advocating. Hard part is
getting authorities et al interested in such an "ad hoc" solution.
Preferrably they could do both and then we can see which one works best in
an emergency :P

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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike [at] swm

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