Why “Outage” is being discussed
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The thing is: its rarely constant rate anywhere. A short outage can snowball very easily in a lot of lost time. What I learned when working with enterprises is that above all th…
by prennert · Sep 17, 2026
This is a very engineer-centric view. I studied economics in school, so an analogy in that realm is ironically how all countries should specialize and raise the PPC curve. The r…
by wand3r · Sep 16, 2026
I'm an ex-Salesforce, and yes, at the time I left, there was a huge change freeze surrounding Dreamforce. Unless a demo of an announced feature was coming in really at the buzze…
by SaucyWrong · Sep 16, 2026
After a merger we ended up with 2 operations systems and one of them thought the other one were clowns. But they thought everyone were clowns so it was hard for the rest of us t…
by hinkley · Sep 16, 2026
> 1% is 3.5 days I think that illustrates the author's point quite well. 99% uptime sounds good, but when you think about a 3+ day outage that doesn't sound very good. Imagine F…
by SoftTalker · Sep 16, 2026
Funny this was posted a few hours after a Salesforce global outage
by Apocryphon · Sep 16, 2026
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