After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any other choice but to use AWS or another major cloud provider. “The problem here is […]
rofl how pathetic of a response. This is similar to the, “let’s see you make better” from someone saying, “this food tastes like shit.”
How is using multiple providers such a massive increase in expense? They’d be able to share the load, so it doesn’t have to be a doubling of expense or even necessarily a significant increase in any universe what so ever.
Because most prices are scaling down if you increase the use.
Buy 1 server -> pay 1 money units
Buy 100 servers -> pay 90 money units
Buy 10000 servers -> pay 8500 money units
If you decrease the bought amount and distribute it among multiple suppliers, you pay more, because you have multiple lower tier packages.
And I’m pretty sure they have at least a bit something like that, because while signal was slow, it didn’t fail completely like other stuff.
And no the response wasn’t pathetic, your misunderstanding of basic economics is, to stay in your aggressive style
Don’t forget cost to develop on multiple platforms simultaneously. Triplication of vendor specific functionality
Save some pennies to keep a single point of failure, then. I don’t care if these shit services prove how inept they are.
It’s not like they’d have to keep equal amounts in all zones. It’s not like they’d have to have double the capacity. Your inability to imagine an economical solution without gross expenditure is… indeed, pathetic.
It’s okay to shut your mouth when you have no idea what you’re talking about.
lol! If you think it’s impossible, you’re yet again only proving how fucking pathetic and rather dim you are. Good job sucking dick for big tech.
Failover between servers isn’t new. Failover between regions isn’t new. Failover between services is BARELY a step past that.
Seriously, if you’re too stupid to understand that, that is very much a YOU problem.
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