But seriously, what's going on with all the service disruptions? From slack to all of facebook to GitHub (who had 7 incidents in September). Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all?
Everything's tradeoffs, economies of scale for centralising- easy to blame the provider if a fuckup happens.
But when it goes down it stops everything; same issue with AWS, Azure's ADFS, Cloudflare, ad infinitum. Half the internet can go away at a moments notice or the provider can turn on you personally because an automated bot dislikes your username and decides to blacklist your company.
(is my bias showing?)
Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services.
People speculate that it's the influx of new sysadmins/programmers, but that's debated.
Is there any particular source for that or is it just something that you've noticed? Feel like I do see more around this time of year but would be real interested if there is data backing it up.
Just don't go 'all in' on one service without backups or some second plan.