[HN Gopher] Salesforce Is Down
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       Salesforce Is Down
        
       Author : exabrial
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-05-11 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (status.salesforce.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (status.salesforce.com)
        
       | johnklos wrote:
       | I think it's hilarious that so many huge companies can't figure
       | out how to run a simple, static web page that can be updated
       | independently of the rest of their infrastructure. It's something
       | that a kid with a Raspberry Pi and an intro to Python book could
       | do in an hour.
       | 
       | Yet here we see example after example of status web pages that
       | break when the status they're supposed to report is anything
       | other than good.
        
         | nitwit005 wrote:
         | Part of the company culture is managers forcing the engineers
         | to use the technology built in-house, even when it's not
         | appropriate.
         | 
         | Which seems to be a rather common trait for the bigger tech
         | companies.
        
         | vanshg wrote:
         | Not even the fact that it's simple - it's the obvious and de
         | facto way that a status page should be run: an architecture
         | that is entirely separate from the main product so that an
         | outage of the main service doesn't affect the status page
         | itself
        
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