[afnog] Another Perspective - Kentik's View on the Facebook Outage

[Mark Tinka]

On 10/8/21 19:04, Randy Bush wrote:

> i hypothesize that, given any level of toolset, automation, what have
> you, we then make our use of it as complex as we think we can tolerate.
> and then ...

Agreed, with the theory being that the more complex we can make it, the 
likelier it is to simplify human interaction.


> it's the complexity, interdependence, fate sharing, tight coupling,
> ... which kill, not the particular tool.

This is where we get greedy, and potentially trivialize the toolset's 
limitations.

Mark.