[spamizbad]

What’s funny is as I get older this feeling of relief turns more like a feeling of dread. The nice thing about problems that you cause is that you have considerable autonomy to fix them. Cloudflare goes down you’re sitting and waiting for a 3 party to fix something.

[mewpmewp2]

Why is it dread? I always feel good when big players mess up, as it makes me feel better about my own mess ups in life previously.

[twodave]

Can’t speak for GP but ultimately I’d rather it be my fault or my company’s fault so I have something I can directly do for my customers who can’t use our software. The sense of dread isn’t about failure but feeling empathy for others who might not make payroll on time or whatever because my service that they rely on is down. And the second order effects, like some employee of a customer being unable to make rent or be forced to take out a short term loan or whatever. The fallout from something like this can have an unexpected human cost at times. Thankfully it’s Tuesday, not a critical payroll day for most employees.

[kasey_junk]

Because my customers don’t (and shouldn’t care) it’s a third party. If I caused it there is a chance I can fix it.

[sys_64738]

When others cause problems then you can put your feet up and surf the web waiting for resolution. Oh, wait.