From the article –
McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.
From the article –
McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.
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Didn’t you hear? The future is the cloud!
Why host stuff locally when you can host it on someone else’s computer, and have fun, exciting, and completely foreseeable failures like this…
The internet is now just AWS, Azure, GCP and Cloudflare.
There are many considerations where the fault lines should be. Somethings absolutely need upstream support and cannot just be buffered… for example payment processing.
Shit happens and we DevOps people do everything we can to minimize it. That’s why your apps might go down for like 2hrs a year.
(I wonder how many even know what this thing is)