fly.io just has the weirdest outages. It has issues so regularly we dont even need to run mock outages to make sure our system fail overs work.
Once in a while we'd have a real outage that matched the test we ran as recently as the weekend before.
I was helping a bank switch over to the DR site(s) one day during such a real outage and I left my mic open when someone asked me what the commotion was on the upper floors of our HQ. I said "super happy fun surprise disaster recovery test for company X".
VP of BIG bank was on the line monitoring and laughed "I'm using that one on the executive call in 15, thanks!" Supposedly it got picked up at the bank internally after the VP made the joke and was an unofficial code for such an outage for a long time.
Traders make loads, not the SWEs
It seems like every vendor sales team I work with is an "executive" or "director of sales" even though in reality they're just regular old salespeople.
I don’t envy the difficulty of doing this, but I’m quite confident they’ll iron the bugs out.
If I were in the market for cloud services I’d highly prize a long-term relationship on mutual benefit and fair dealings over a short-term nuisance of being an early adopter.
I strongly suspect your investment in fly is going to pay off.
b7r6@b7r6.net
(Also: not a legend, just loud.)
When you talk technology, I listen, and I doubt I'm alone in that. Keep up the good work with fly.io!