> Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:56 -0700 > From: Mike <mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Amazon diagnosis > > On 04/29/2011 12:35 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: > > http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ > > > > ___ > > > So, in a nut shell, Amazon had a single point of failure which touched > off this entire incident. > > I am still waiting for proof that single points of failure can > realistically be completely eliminated from any moderately complicated > network environment / application. So far, I think murphy is still > winning on this one.
this was a classical case of _O'Brien's_Law_ in action -- which states, rather pithily: "Murphy... was an OPTIMIST!!"