Bigcommerce Status Page blasts IBM Softlayer Object Storage service
This is pretty heavy stuff:
Bigcommerce engineers have been very pro-active in working with our storage provider, IBM Softlayer, in finding solutions. Unfortunately, it takes two parties to come to a solution. In this case, IBM Softlayer intentionally let their Object Storage cluster fall into disrepair and chose not to scale it. This has impacted Bigcommerce, IBM and many other Softlayer customers. Our engineers placed too much trust in IBM Softlayer and that’s on us. However, the catastrophic failures to see metrics and rapidly scale capacity, the decisions to let hard drives sit at 90% utilization for weeks and months, the cascading failures of an undersized cluster of 52 nodes for the busiest data center in their business speaks to IBM Softlayer’s lack of concern for their customers. We found this out 3 days ago.
(via Oisin)(tags: softlayer bigcommerce outages shambles ibm fail object-storage storage iaas cloud)
Subscribing AWS Lambda Function To SNS Topic With aws-cli
how to use the AWS command line tools to do this
Yelp Product & Engineering Blog | True Zero Downtime HAProxy Reloads
Using tc and qdisc to delay SYNs while haproxy restarts. Definitely feels like on-host NAT between 2 haproxy processes would be cleaner and easier though!
(tags: linux networking hacks yelp haproxy uptime reliability tcp tc qdisc ops)