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Or maybe it's because the internet is tendentially becoming just a few companies' data centers? Afaik Twitter moved to GCP a few months ago. Maybe this is another Google outage?

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Less likely since it looks fine from GCP status page.

Hmm, it seems that Twitter already figured it out, configuration change issues again.

Probably because we all use Kubernetes and YAML files and 100% of configuration failures are "oh shit, I used two spaces instead of 4, we're fucked".

Something like this is my bet too, there was a recent post somewhere called something like "why all outages are due to a configuration change". There are monocultures in site reliability ops for big companies, "configuration over code" but with heavy automation too. From my outside view it seems there's a tradeoff when you do that between more frequent smaller issues and less frequent bigger issues. Also reminds me of Google's move away from eventual consistency because with their infrastructure they can make a CP system highly available in practice... except when it isn't, due to a botched configuration change.

> tendentially

Is this a word? You don't mean tangentially? I'm having a crisis right now.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tendential

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tendentially

Probably meant tangentially anyway.

"Tangentially" would make less sense. More likely, they meant to convey a present-participle form of "the internet tends to be consolidated."

Is it not? Sorry if I got it wrong, English isn't my first language.

dict.cc (my source of truth for English vocab) says it's a word: https://www.dict.cc/?s=tendentially

It's apparently a word but I'd say it's quite uncommon. I played around with google ngram viewer and had a hard time coming up with a word that is less common. But I finally came up with "astrophotographic".

E: "unsurpassingly" is way down there too

It's very common in Biblical criticism (transliterated from German).

It's common in German, so I figured it wouldn't be uncommon in English. Oh well :)

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