The point is that the monkey was only the trigger. But the full cause of an outage is much more than just the trigger. It's a monkey this time, could have been an operator or a storm...
Digging a bit deeper, they appear to be running with very little margin, if any. Meaning redundancy and protection against cascading failures is limited.
Fixing the real cause is expensive, so it's often easier to just blame the trigger—though admittedly in this case it makes for a great headline. :)
athenot|1 year ago
Digging a bit deeper, they appear to be running with very little margin, if any. Meaning redundancy and protection against cascading failures is limited.
Fixing the real cause is expensive, so it's often easier to just blame the trigger—though admittedly in this case it makes for a great headline. :)
nullc|1 year ago
It's not like the monkey deployed special monkey skills beyond "occupy space while being electrically conductive".
billfruit|1 year ago