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<p class="MsoNormal">Howdy Jay, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In light of today’s Facebook outage, I thought I’d inquire as to how your new book about complex failure analysis is coming along.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is the cover art I proposed at the start of the pandemic, with some new owls as requested. :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Outages-discussion <outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org> on behalf of "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 8:52 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, Gary Josack <gary@byoteki.com>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>OUTAGES Discussion List <outages-discussion@outages.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Outages-discussion] [EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Discord: Sever outages and Increased API errors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hmm, you have a point. Maybe the three wise guys are a more appropriate animal metaphor...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 8:52 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com>, Gary Josack <gary@byoteki.com>, Gary Josack via Outages <outages@outages.org>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Discord: Sever outages and Increased API errors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Yeah, but that's an owl, with a 360-degree neck. Shouldn't it have been facing away from the camera? :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On March 22, 2020 2:03:04 AM EDT, "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Whenever you decide to publish such a book, I’ve got your title and cover art ready...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Put me down for a pre-order.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Brad<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Outages <outages-bounces@outages.org> on behalf of Jay Ashworth via Outages <outages@outages.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, March 20, 2020 at 9:07 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Gary Josack <gary@byoteki.com>, Gary Josack via Outages <outages@outages.org>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>outages <outages@outages.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Discord: Sever outages and Increased API errors</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am sufficiently interested that I'm seriously considering writing a book on this topic actually. That was a very nice write-up. Do I correctly understand, then, that the root cause was the broken golang library
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(For the moment, we will pass on the topic of the irony of having to come up with an alternate name for your own language because otherwise people won't be able to find things about it... in the search engine you run that you wrote it for :-) Way to go Google.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On March 20, 2020 11:54:08 PM EDT, Gary Josack via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone is interested we published a post mortem on our status page for this incident. <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/status.discordapp.com/incidents/62gt9cgjwdgf__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!9IlozgcLDbWntVNJYRLbLSjlkY1RnEa2iRitGoMKZBTwtilpUibKlSbLxIv4M9w-XQ$">https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/62gt9cgjwdgf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 2:49 PM Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Discord seems to be having issues. It is showing on Down Detector. The splash page says:
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Server Status page shows:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mostly FYI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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TTFN,<br>
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