Ouch
feeling hot here ...
Microsoft has warned that a "subset of customers in South Central US" may experience Azure problems today after cooling issues sent the servers scurrying for the shutdown button. The warning was first raised by Microsoft at 09:29 UTC as pretty much everything in the South Central US region went offline thanks to a temperature …
the cloud would work better if Micro-shaft could write EFFICIENT CODE like they USED to.
Compare ".Net" and "UWP" to how snappy Win '95 was, by comparison. In 16Mb of memory even!!!
And that pretty much explains it all. Micro-shaft, STOP it with the BLOATWARE! Abandon ".Not", "UWP", "The Metro", C-pound, and THE SPYWARE!!! [then you might find your servers won't overheat because they're no longer working against themselves, ya know???]
MS fanboi downvotes welcome. heh. But, you *KNOW* I'm *RIGHT* about this!!!
Bomb. Bob» the cloud would work better if Micro-shaft could write EFFICIENT CODE like they USED to.
When was this exactly? I've been using Microsoft products since Excel v2 on the Mac way back in the early nineties. And even then, Microsoft products were resource hogs.
When I think about it now, there are only 2 Microsoft products worth paying for: Excel & SQL Server. Maybe Windows Server.
I do agree with the sentiment of your post though.
@Mr. Attention-Whoring-Random-Caps-Gimmick; As the other person noted, Microsoft weren't noted for their resource efficiency, even back then.
If Windows 95 was "snappy" at the time, that's probably as much because it was doing much less by modern standards. And also because despite the improved multitasking and better interface, it was still based on MS-DOS (#) and Windows 3.1 under the skin- rather than the NT-based newer versions- which would be grossly unsuitable for any remotely modern use.
I'm the last person you could accuse of being an MS "fanboi"- I loathe them more than ever with the blatant spyware that is Windows 10- and it's true that modern software is often horribly efficient in general- but your (tediously bombastic) nostalgia says nothing of real insight either.
FFS, if efficiency was all that mattered, we'd ditch the OS altogether and hit the bare metal directly. There's a reason that's gone out of fashion, though...
(#) i.e. A ripoff/clone/workalike of CP/M (a minimal- by modern standards- OS designed in the mid-70s for early 8-bit CPUs) which required numerous subsequent modifications in order to overcome its obsolete-at-birth architecture and ended up being a pig-fugly hacked about mess.
"Abandon ".Not"... C-pound..."
Name-calling aside: what, pray tell, would you propose as an alternative to these? C# continues to rank highly in the most in-demand programming languages (usually around #5 in the charts right now).
Unless of course you have some magical way of instantly training all these .NET developers...
Cloud providers give you the tools to build redundant services, but don't do anything automatically. And since you have to pay extra to get the redundancy, you end up spending even more money to protect yourself from your suppliers failings.
From the cloud suppliers point of view I guess it's doubles all round.
This mode of failure strikes me as rather odd. It should not be overly difficult to engineer a cooling solution to a data center with 10% excess capacity, and this was hardly the hottest day of the year.
If they're pushing things to the limit, however, and shifting loads into other data centers....
it is highly likely that there is a big-ass installation of cooling water assemblies outside to dump the center heat. I humbly suggest that San Antonio also being nicely warm, the filters inside before the actual air conditioning chillers are slathered with algae, having cleaned them before in other places. guys, stagger your maintenance so they don't all clog at the same time, ok?
Right now that granularity is massaged out of the official numbers and presentations given by 'Someone Else's Computer' salesmen. Blaming old in-house infrastructure and external Telcos comes first anyway.
Next time CEO's are pitched Cloud services, they should ask why everything from e-Sports to Fortnite doesn't run in the Cloud... Its telling how competitive video gaming is years away from being hosted there.
So will anyone be getting refunds for damages, loss of business, etc.? Or even refunds for the time the service (Office 365, nay Office 364, ah well let's just call it Office Sometime) was out?
Or is this another area where perhaps some new legislation for rights of the tenant needs to happen?
Of course, since we use our own, open source systems, no effect here other than an uncontrollable urge to laugh at those glued to Microsoft's "too good to be true" deals!
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Cheap off-the-shelf hardware. You get what you paid for. Next shut down will be caused some crappy software developed using Agile one-line stories.
Who came up with the bright idea that one can develop quality (I know quality and software, right!) software using Agile.
Yep, Agile is great for changing products and prices on an E-commerce web site.
I mean, I'm amazed about how people are shouting at Azure Support on twitter like "It is unacceptable!!!" "Our production system has been down for 10 hrs!!".
Did you not think that you should have had redundancy across multiple regions for your production systems (I'm talking about self-engineered solutions of course)? Anything can fail anytime, spend that money or keep off those "clouds".
....to be Infrastructure free. The cloud never goes down".
Yeah right. Considering our own data centre hadn't been down in probably over a year. The only other time it went down was through hardware failure of new kit out of our control. Ooo, bit like how the cloud is out of our control.
When will they realise the cloud is just "Someone else's computer you have no control over" and if you are small fish, you're at the bottom of the support list of companies to get back online.
And "Infrastructure free" isn't a fucking term that exists! Stop making shit up!