Source: The Register
Article note: This seems like an appropriate take.
The engineering org has become famously unpleasant, the best people left, the remaining employees are all stressed and overworked, and now we get to see what happens when the world's largest egg basket starts to become unstable.
I suspect the answer will be "A lot of the cloud bullshit from the last decade slowly gets unwound." That will probably provide a lot of good work for a lot of decent sysadmins, and leave a lot of I-can-run-AWS-cookbooks "Devops" folks less employable, more or less as happens every few decades when the big central / small distributed pendulum reverses.
When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
column "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…
