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0 pointsandyfleming9y ago0 comments

They should at least be in multiple availability zones. Multiple regions often comes with a lot of challenges, but there isn't much reason not to be redundant in multiple AZs.

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smt889y ago

> Multiple regions often comes with a lot of challenges

As an almost-customer of Layer (before their massive price increase), they led me to believe that this was one of the problems they would be solving for me. Nowhere on their website does it say, "We save money by not following best practices, so plan accordingly for occasional outages!"

Artemis29y ago

Were they or were they not in multiple AZs? Developing for multiple availability zones is trivial when creating cloud-first software (and it's irresponsible not to use AZs!), multi-region comes with its own set of problems.

inlined9y ago

In the report they say they're looking at moving to a new region, but Google apparently told them that us-central1-a was down. The "-a" makes it an AZ. It sounds like they're only on one AZ and may not fully understand the difference.

[correction: they accidentally called usc1-a a region, but everything mentioned in their outage was a zone. They specifically called it a "deployment zone" not an availability zone, so it sounds like an issue of inexperience with best practices.]

[obligatory disclaimer: I'm a Google employee. I don't have a relationship with Layer]

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