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		rdl on March 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Another EC2 outage (yet AWS dashboard says no erro... You should at least know there is an outage to have something to tell your downstream customers. It is really embarrassing to have a customer (or your boss) call to report an outage you don't yet know about, even if there is fuck all you can do to resolve it. Basic principle of ops.

cperciva on March 15, 2012 | [–]

I wasn't being entirely serious. :-)

zackattack on March 15, 2012 | [–]

> Basic principle of ops

For my benefit, what are some others?

rdl on March 15, 2012 | [–]

This would actually be an interesting blog post.

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