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Different outages, different panic: social apps vs dev-tool servers down
OnCall ProductionIssues Post #4014 · source on Telegram

Different outages, different panic: social apps vs dev-tool servers down

Description

Two-panel cartoon meme. Top panel captioned "HOW TO FREAK OUT AN AVERAGE YOUNG PERSON:" shows a blonde woman in a red crop-top, hands on her head, mouth open in horror. Her desktop monitor displays bold text "SERVERS DOWN:" followed by large icons for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp; the background is a pink wall. Bottom panel captioned "HOW TO FREAK OUT A DEVELOPER:" shows a dark-haired man in a green T-shirt mirroring the same panic pose. His screen also reads "SERVERS DOWN:" but lists icons for StackOverflow, GitHub, and AWS instead. Desks, keyboard, and mouse are identical, emphasizing the situational contrast. Technically, the joke highlights how developers rely on infrastructure and knowledge-sharing services (StackOverflow, GitHub, AWS) far more than consumer social platforms, underlining on-call anxiety and production-outage fears familiar to DevOps and SRE professionals

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OnCall ProductionIssues DevOps SRE DeveloperExperience DX

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick If Stack Overflow, GitHub, and AWS all vanish at once, relax - it’s just the annual DR exercise where we pretend it’s 2004, deploy via scp, and rediscover that “tribal knowledge” isn’t in source control
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    If Stack Overflow, GitHub, and AWS all vanish at once, relax - it’s just the annual DR exercise where we pretend it’s 2004, deploy via scp, and rediscover that “tribal knowledge” isn’t in source control

  2. Anonymous

    The real horror isn't when social media goes down - it's when Stack Overflow is unreachable and you suddenly realize you've been outsourcing your memory to a distributed system with no local cache or fallback strategy

  3. Anonymous

    When Stack Overflow is down, the industry's true bus factor reveals itself: one CDN

  4. Anonymous

    The real difference? When social media goes down, people complain on other social media. When Stack Overflow goes down, developers suddenly realize they've been copy-pasting solutions for 15 years and have no idea how anything actually works. AWS outage? That's when you discover your 'highly available multi-region architecture' was really just us-east-1 with extra steps and a prayer

  5. Anonymous

    Our HA plan is simple: if AWS, GitHub, and Stack Overflow go down, we fail over to institutional memory and that one 2011 blog post

  6. Anonymous

    Our BCP is just “refresh StatusPage” - when StackOverflow, GitHub, Bitbucket and us-east-1 go dark, even the runbook lives in a private repo in the affected region

  7. Anonymous

    Social media down? Time for coffee. AWS down? Time to dust off that secondary region we swore we'd implement last quarter

  8. @realVitShadyTV 4y

    Fuck bitbucket.

  9. @paul_thunder 4y

    Oh no! Looks like I have no other option but to do the job.

  10. @pixelsex 4y

    Rajesh, sir, please do the needful

  11. @mpolovnev 4y

    When AWS is down, the rest of internet is down as well (

    1. @dsmagikswsa 4y

      True 😂

  12. @QutePoet 4y

    Why do he like Bitbucket and don't use GitHub instead? Because of CI/CD?

  13. Ievgen 4y

    Self-hosted masterrace 🎩

  14. @BotMike 4y

    You don't need all of them down to freak out a developer

    1. @LionElJonson 4y

      Agreed

  15. @AmirhosseinDotZip 4y

    What was this

    1. dev_meme 4y

      gitlab 😎

  16. @karumsenjoyer 4y

    This is native Bitbucket ad No one really uses it, and no one will give a fuck when it will be down ;)

    1. @kirkbones 4y

      You are wrong, it is nice)

    2. @RiedleroD 4y

      I don't even know what it does - is it like pastebin? I feel like it might be.

      1. dev_meme 4y

        Github competitor for git repos, with good integration with JIRA and the rest of atlassian tools

  17. Deleted Account 4y

    stackoverflow is the most important here

    1. @Agent1378 4y

      You're sad because u use so

      1. @dsmagikswsa 4y

        Yes….if you need to check SO.. you probably stuck something long….

        1. @Agent1378 4y

          Or it's a bad habit that leads to incompetence, doubt, imposter syndrome and suffering. Only the official docs/reference for the language, tool or framework should be used for keeping the mental health and good mood.

  18. ẞonny 4y

    Julien assange can get extradited.

  19. @cptnBoku 4y

    Why was the AWS down message was not conveyed immediately ?? Was it hosted on AWS itself so the last status on it would be working ???

  20. @x24R3 4y

    AWS down day is good

  21. @cringy_frog 4y

    > young person > facebook and whatsapp, no tiktok 👵

  22. @callofvoid0 4y

    never used AWS and bitbucket

  23. @mksmbrtsh 4y

    Come to rus chebunet! It'n down

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