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mylons | 3 months ago

This is GOLD Jerry, Gold.

but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector

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eYrKEC2|3 months ago

You're on that site right now!

bombcar|3 months ago

HN is the true down detector - if HN is down TCP is down.

falcor84|3 months ago

I know you were joking, but responding in seriousness - while in general it's worthwhile asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", in this particular case, I don't see any issue with Down Detector detecting the Down Detector Down Detector. Assuming they are in different availability zones, using different code, with a different deployment cadence, this approach works quite well in practice.

mylons|3 months ago

haha — this is the exact comment i was hoping to see! indeed, i was joking. The Watchmen graphic novel is very important to me as it opened my eyes to the concept of “who watches the watchmen” which I was ultimately eluding to here, albeit extremely facetiously.

Waterluvian|3 months ago

> Quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Arbites.

graemep|3 months ago

Can down detector not detect whether down detector detector is down or not?

Maybe distributed down detection?

I know there are people here perfectly capable of running with that idea and we might just see a distributed down detector announced on HN :)

PunchyHamster|3 months ago

See, that's the joke, all of them are on cloudflare/us-west-1 so they all go down together anyway

joelhaasnoot|3 months ago

Time for the META Down Detector - detecting which of the three is down

philipwhiuk|3 months ago

Or "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

mproud|3 months ago

I think the original down detectors do

jl6|3 months ago

Mutually assured down-detection.

excalibur|3 months ago

It's detectors all the way down.