I'm not the parent, but I maintain services on both AWS and Azure, and in the last few years, I can definitely say the outages on Azure have been more frequent and more severe. The only AWS outages I recall are S3 and the Dyn DNS issue that brought many other providers down too.
AWS has had a couple cascading EBS failures in us-east-1 years ago which affected a lot of services since it's a foundational building block of the whole system. It's been a reason to prefer instance storage for quite awhile imo.
I've run most everything in us-west-2 Oregon the last 5+ years and I can't remember a similar sort of outage there in that time-frame.
A widespread world-wide outage like is happening now on Azure is a red flag imo.
AWS has one or two a year from what I've seen... IIRC gcp has had outages too... Unless you're designing with several safeguards in place across multiple regions and cloud providers, there's no getting around it.
Everyone has down time, it's just often coordinated to a lot of people when it does happen. It's still generally less than when you try to self host on a cloud provider, it's just not your mistake that did it.
"an" outage is different from a global outage though.
I'm not sure what the SLA is on a single region, but going down 0-2 times per year is a reasonable expectation, depending on the length of each one. If you want more, you have to have regional failover.
Azure is burning error budget in every region today and you would need to failover to a different cloud provider or your own datacenter.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, there was no plan you could implement solely in Azure that could have helped you today.
Worldwide outage? That's really not the case. Over thousands of machines in 3 years I haven't seen a single failure that spanned more than one region. Or even a region going entirely offline. At most you'll see one service affected.
What would help is to develop a material that is just as good as plastic (or better), degrades easily and is cheaper as well, and then wait for them to copy. Germany basically did this for solar energy.
The point of plastic is that it doesn't degrade. How could you make a bottle that maintains its integrity when storing lemonade but dissolves once it hits the ocean or a lake? There is no useful signal that separates the situations. You could try continuous disintegration, but this requires people accepting part of a dissolving bottle in their drinks.
I think the issue is no matter what policies are adapted outside of Asia, the current status of ocean plastics will remain until Asian countries modify their internal policies.
My car does this on the dash in front of my steering wheel. It will switch to an overhead of the lanes and highlight the one you have to take when you get close to your turn as well.
Much easier to process this than the full map on something like my phone or the map on the center console.
To add to this, my recollection from looking at cars ~6 months ago is that this feature is pretty common now. With my car now, I just get distance + upcoming turn info, but usually that's okay - I prefer looking at signage for lane stuff anyway. If I really do need lane info, it's on the center console.
It's a shame the dash screen doesn't work with android auto though. (I understand, logically, that the dash and the android auto stuff are separate systems, but it'd be nice...) Nissan actually has pretty good maps, but they're rather ugly (and not quite as good as Google's).
I had some trouble using ReadOnlySequence in a library I am writing (mostly because of no documentation). After looking through how Kestrel uses it(they started using Pipelines in ASP.NET Core 2.1) I found their BufferReader[1] class. It made using ReadOnlySequence much easier.
Overall, pipelines have been really solid for me so far. Working out how to use it without documentation was a total pain though, hopefully they get that out soon. If anyone is interested I can throw the library up on GitHub if anyone wants some real world examples of using pipelines.
But there is also the possibility that your dog will guard your corpse and not let strangers or other animals near it (like Talero). And a lesser possibility that your dog will guard your grave until it dies [0].
Cats? They'll sit on your corpse to interview servants to replace you.
Curiously I went to school around the corner from the Greyfriars church yard and must have walked past the statue thousands of times. I noticed that the statue has been defaced in recent years by tourists touching its nose for good luck.
It's traumatic for the dog, too. Often, when someone with a dog is found dead, the dog will have bitten (or eaten) their face, in the hopes of waking up their owner.
> The dogs start biting and eating as a form of animal instinct. They notice you’re dead by your smell and lack of reaction, and they come and lick the unclothed areas to wake you up. If you’re dead and there’s no reaction, they switch and enter the next level—from licking to biting. That’s all. It is not a matter of hunger.
