Seriously? You Need *Resilience* in the Cloud?!
Right, so some “experts” at Gartner are telling us that cloud outages happen. No fucking shit, Sherlock. This article basically whines about how relying on these flaky cloud providers – AWS, Azure, Google, the whole lot of ’em – means you *need* to plan for when they inevitably go tits up. Like, it’s a revelation.
Apparently, developers are realizing that “single points of failure” are bad. Groundbreaking stuff. They’re now suggesting things like multi-cloud strategies (because spreading your misery around is always better), chaos engineering (intentionally breaking shit to see what breaks – brilliant!), and building more fault tolerance into applications. You mean… *designing for failure*? Who would have thought?
The article drones on about observability, automated recovery, and all the other buzzwords they can cram in there. Basically, it’s a long-winded way of saying “don’t be an idiot, don’t put all your eggs in one basket, and test your goddamn code.” And yes, they mention SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) because *everything* is now SRE apparently.
Oh, and it mentions the cost. Surprise! Doing things properly costs money. Who knew? Apparently, companies are willing to spend a bit more if it means not having their entire business implode when some AWS region decides to take an unscheduled nap. Progress, I guess.
Honestly, this isn’t news. It’s common sense. But hey, someone had to write an article explaining it to people. Pathetic.
Related Anecdote: I once watched a “DevOps Engineer” spend 36 hours straight trying to fix an application that failed because they hardcoded the timezone into a database query. The cloud provider had a minor hiccup, and suddenly everything was off by one hour. One fucking hour. Resilience? They couldn’t even handle a simple timezone issue. Honestly, some people shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard.
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