First it was GCP in June. Then it was AWS in October. Then it was Azure a week later. It seems that our cloud providers are having outages far more often, and for far longer, than any of us would like. In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matthew discuss the two most recent outages along with some of their thoughts on the current state of the industry and the future of software.

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Show Notes:

AWS Outage Summary: https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/
Azure Outage Summary: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/

Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00:00)
Chapter 1: The AWS Outage (00:03:03)
Chapter 2: Overdependence on Timeouts and Retries [Extended] (00:27:15)
Chapter 3: Food Delivery app PINs should be Local First [Extended] (00:27:41)
Chapter 4: The Azure Outage (00:28:11)
Chapter 5: Do We Actually Need All These Cloud Services? [Extended] (00:39:37)
Chapter 6: We Are Trapped By Our Own Path Dependence [Extended] (00:40:07)
Chapter 7: What Is Popular Is Not Necessarily What Is Good (00:40:54)
Appendix UNPOP: Unpopular Opinions and Panic & Recover (00:42:42)
Epilogue (01:02:34)

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(00:00) - Prologue
(03:03) - Chapter 1: The AWS Outage
(27:15) - Chapter 2: Overdependence on Timeouts and Retries [Extended]
(27:41) - Chapter 3: Food Delivery app PINs should be Local First [Extended]
(28:11) - Chapter 4: The Azure Outage
(39:37) - Chapter 5: Do We Actually Need All These Cloud Services? [Extended]
(40:07) - Chapter 6: We Are Trapped By Our Own Path Dependence [Extended]
(40:54) - Chapter 7: What Is Popular Is Not Necessarily What Is Good
(42:42) - Appendix UNPOP: Unpopular Opinions and Panic & Recover
(01:02:34) - Epilogue

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