This is worse than putting the NYC Command Center in the WTC 7 after the 1993 attack and despite housing 1,200-gallon diesel fuel tank.https://twitter.com/adam42smith/status/837385057111322624 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Sebastian Karcher
This is worse than putting the NYC Command Center in the WTC 7 after the 1993 attack and despite housing 1,200-gallon diesel fuel tank.https://twitter.com/adam42smith/status/837385057111322624 …
zeynep tufekci added,
"Huddle around the fire, children. I'll tell you how inter-dependencies in complex coupled systems took it all down. Eat your cockroaches!"
If a typo took AWS S3; that's bad design. If a dashboard has dependencies on the very thing it's dashboarding ... that is an indication.
Defensive design for low-freq events in complex systems is hard; still surprised "how does dashboard run if system is down" was overlooked.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jason Miller
Yeah; parts of the internet infrastructure are like one big monocrop ecology.https://twitter.com/Lexwerks/status/837391811773505537 …
zeynep tufekci added,
"Yes, children. It was the IoT pencil sharpeners that blasted the electrical grid after the touchscreen icon 'STOP' on S3 was inaccessible".
With all this talk of frailties of complex coupled systems. Here's "Sunday Morning" by Velvet Underground. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cWzxJvgWc8&index=2&list=PLC91CBE56DA8EF8B0 …
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