Happened to read a game from LinkedIn. An recruiter published a series words of '0' and '1' on my LinkedIn timeline. Which brought me back to the funny time struggling with huge logs from a large number of embedded cards. Can't wait to decode with shell :_)

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Encountered an AWS S3 Outage today on Travis CI. The broadcasting message shew that some apps providers have nothing to do but just pray or twitter and expect AWS to recover the issuing region S3 service (the most failures were from North Virginia Regnion, US-East, the following number -1 depends on accounts). Quora even has core stack out so content is not accessible for a while. As a content provider, we hope at least the authentication and reading on hot/warm data shall be maintained with appropertiate techniques as staticizing and CDN, hybrid mode for warm/hot data, et. The fact is cruel. On the other hand, which brings us back to Netflix Simian Army and most people are sure Netflix will not be impacted based on the chaos weather test from public reports.

Since S3 is a storage service, moreover, it is also a base to support many other famous AWS services. Which could explain why the AWS monitoring system was still presenting a green light at first couple of hours. It is weird to build WatchDog on top of the system under watch. However, it happened.

Travis Error Message on My Project

This post will share some thoughts on AWS outage.

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An update on adding sub domain name to existing godaddy domain service, setting up nginx to forward 4096 port to 80, setting up firewall rules with iptables, iptables-persistent on Ubuntu VPS. jenkins.maxwu.me is now a sub-domain.

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