what happened to Reddit?
2+ hour site outage globally. any clues?
Posted Mar 15, 2023, 1:49 AM UTC
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It’s a shame there’s no professionalism in the updates, just “talking to you like a baby idiot” nonsense
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Not all updates can be shared and it depends on the company culture as well. I've seen companies even outright refuse to accept that there was a downtime for multiple hourse when it starts. Reddit was at least pretty quick to update that (within 30 minutes from what i know)
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Or us-east-1
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God I hate us-east-1
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Yeah some companies are shit, some are good. This is a shit update
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Reddit used to pride itself on its openness.
Any small issue usually resulted in a highly technical blog post a few days later. Haven't seen one in years though...
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It's not quite an outage report, but there are some interesting technical posts on r/RedditEng.
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FYI - there's now an RCA blogpost.
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For a person named razzledazed you sure seemed razzled without the dazzle.
Try not to take things so seriously. Also RCAs take a few minutes. Go have a bananer.
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Reddit is still very much working on improving reliability. I hear they've also swung too far in the process direction internally in response to some breaks, so the pendulum has to swing back a bit toward rapid iteration as they improve. Lots to do and some good people working on it.
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Meanwhile they have had the same SRE job listing posted and won’t hire for it
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it was down a lot longer than 2 hours.
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Better than Datadog at least...
did they offer any compensation?
That's on my manager.