Comment by ourmandave
3 days ago
Is it coincidence that there's a Scheduled Maintenance in Tokyo for 18:00 UTC in progress, and the problems started at 18:19 UTC?
3 days ago
Is it coincidence that there's a Scheduled Maintenance in Tokyo for 18:00 UTC in progress, and the problems started at 18:19 UTC?
Unrelated, they have a few services that rely on GCP which is down. Still, I imagine the people working on the maintenance for Tokyo turned white during that job worried it was caused by them...
Guess we'll find out from the postmortem. Always the silver lining with these, get to learn from and enjoy a good writeup.
Do these get posted publicly?
Yeah. Cloudflare writes some of the best ones in the industry, and they're very enjoyable to read: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/post-mortem/
I really do appreciate the transparency and ownership that comes with these. We all fuck up, but a lot of companies would rather hide their mistakes than own up to them. Cloudflare's approach makes me trust them more.
> Do these get posted publicly?
Yes.
There is always scheduled maintenance on that page, so that's not much of a signal in my experience
Probably