Posts by Haberdashist

Amazon S3-izure cause: Half the web vanished because an AWS bod fat-fingered a command

Re: Availability Zones

> Also they're still physically the same datacenter

No, each region is made of many data centers. US-EAST-1 is spread across Northern Virginia.

> Using only one AWS region is a bad idea. Period. In fact, I'd argue (thanks, BGP hijacking!) that using only Amazon services is a bad idea. If that is too difficult to manage for you, then set the appropriate expectations with your business managers and users. Your product is too cheap to support that high of an uptime requirement.

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> Amazon fails sometimes, Google fails sometimes, Microsoft fails sometimes (and in at least one instance took weeks to restore!)... don't put all your eggs in one basket, people. Don't be that guy.

Have fun living on your planet where everyone has the budget and time for multi-provider multi-region setups. It's one thing to chide people for not having proper backups or never considering HA, but expecting every site to launch their own satellite to maintain continuity in case the internet fails is pretty pointless.

Moderation gone mad?

Re: Not allowed to criticize a Reg author?

I had two comments critical of an article rejected. One was completely "playing the ball, not the man", and didn't mention the author specifically at all. It was a critique of the journalistic approach to the article (the author's presenting his own conclusions as facts rather than interviewing sources, and using a glaring logical fallacy in the process). It was a quite reasonable and well-written comment.

The other comment was a reply to a comment by the author and did address them specifically, but had a much more moderated tone than the author's comment. If the author themselves is posting to the forums in an uncivilized way (multiple times on the same article, I might add), it seems completely reasonable that we should be able to point that out.

Anyway, I'm not a regular Reg reader and this being my first commenting experience on the site leads me to avoid the site going forward whenever there is another source covering the same topic (which there always is).

Microsoft SQL Server 14 man: 'Nothing stops a Hekaton transaction'

Re: World+Dog gasps at the innovation

I'm not an MS guy, but how is this different than MySQL Cluster? Or even just a MEMORY table in MySQL? Storing and operating on entire tables in memory seems like it's been a standard feature in databases servers for a very long time. Surely SQL Server already had an in-memory table type before this, right?