2 years ago, about 1 in 3 people in the UK were watching England in the World Cup.
Towards the end of the game, a CDN the bbc used crashed, taking a million people’s live streams offline.
Traditional TV with its 20 million plus viewers worked fine.
A 15 minute global outage during the World Cup or Super Bowl is not acceptable in the world of boring old TV
Meanwhile github has been down how many times this year?
IT is still a terrible industry of cowboys. It’s just hidden under the veneer of abstaction, microservices and outsourcing. Other industries like the national grid or water of radio have outages that affect a local geographic area or a limited number of people, but they are far more distributed than the modern internet. It’s ironic a network designed to survive nuclear war can’t survive a typo.
Towards the end of the game, a CDN the bbc used crashed, taking a million people’s live streams offline.
Traditional TV with its 20 million plus viewers worked fine.
A 15 minute global outage during the World Cup or Super Bowl is not acceptable in the world of boring old TV
Meanwhile github has been down how many times this year?
IT is still a terrible industry of cowboys. It’s just hidden under the veneer of abstaction, microservices and outsourcing. Other industries like the national grid or water of radio have outages that affect a local geographic area or a limited number of people, but they are far more distributed than the modern internet. It’s ironic a network designed to survive nuclear war can’t survive a typo.
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