I’ve seen more than one example of that kind of technical error. Always hilarious!
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Wrong summary for sure. If it was the correct summary, it would be "winter is coming," not "spring is coming."
trappedslider
Legend
The fact that netflix rolled with it makes it the comedy gold it is.
I doubt the percentage of large companies using Azure to host their servers is that high. If you’re referring to the mass outages due to CrowdStrike, it impacted Windows servers so they could still be hosted in Amazon, Google, or Oracle’s cloud offerings if they still run Windows just like it’s possible to run a Linux server in Microsoft Azure.
That being said it was certainly fun to see how many critical applications run on Windows servers. I was off work yesterday and kept getting bombarded with text updates from work on the status of bringing basically everything back up. Our Linux application support team was probably having a good day laughing.
It is hardly surprising - robust systems are more costly than fragile ones, incur costs in maintenance, and take forethought and planning to build. And, even when we are shown a need, many don't respond.
For example, let us consider supply chains - back in 2011, an earthquake led to a tsunami in Japan, which led to the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. We tend to forget that it also devastated the part of the silicon chip industry that car manufacturers depended on.
At the time, in the name of financial efficiency, car makers used "just in time" supply, where you time delivery of parts to when you need those parts, and you don't keep inventory of spares on hand, because it costs way more than you think to store inventory at industrial scale, this saves money..
But, as you might guess, it fails when the supply stream is disrupted. For a while after that tsunami, new car assembly ground to a halt.
One car maker (Toyota) saw this disruption, and changed their policies - they started keeping greater inventory of computer chips, but the rest of the industry didn't. So, when supply chain disruption in computer parts hit again with the pandemic, you may remember that, again, new car supply ground to a trickle.
Except for Toyota.
Military surplus isn't typically used though. It is surplus inventory that the supply chain would rather sell off than store. Army surplus stores are basically Marshall's in olive drab.
Ryujin
Legend
Very true. Various militaries do occasionally sell off used clothing and equipment. I used to see occasional batches of it come into the large surplus store that was my primary source, Hercules Surplus in Toronto, and would steer well clear of it despite the even lower prices.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Though as an article I read recently noted, surplus stores in the old sense are almost a thing of the past because there's almost none of that material in the supply chain any more.
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