<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Personally, I prefer the monkey cover both visually and in terms of the text content.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2021, at 8:28 PM, Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal) <<a href="mailto:Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com" class="">Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Howdy Jay,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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 class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Below is the cover art I proposed at the start of the pandemic, with some new owls as requested. :-)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Cheers,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Brad<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span id="cid:image001.png@01D7B95E.5820FBE0"><image001.png></span><span id="cid:image002.png@01D7B95E.5820FBE0"><image002.png></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org</a>> on behalf of "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <<a href="mailto:Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 8:52 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Jay Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jra@baylink.com</a>>, Gary Josack <<a href="mailto:gary@byoteki.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">gary@byoteki.com</a>>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">patrick@ianai.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>OUTAGES Discussion List <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Outages-discussion] [EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Discord: Sever outages and Increased API errors<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hmm, you have a point. Maybe the three wise guys are a more appropriate animal metaphor...<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Jay Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jra@baylink.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 8:52 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <<a href="mailto:Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com</a>>, Gary Josack <<a href="mailto:gary@byoteki.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">gary@byoteki.com</a>>, Gary Josack via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages@outages.org</a>>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">patrick@ianai.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Discord: Sever outages and Increased API errors<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Yeah, but that's an owl, with a 360-degree neck. Shouldn't it have been facing away from the camera? :-)<o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On March 22, 2020 2:03:04 AM EDT, "Chapman, Brad (NBCUniversal)" <<a href="mailto:Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Brad.Chapman@nbcuni.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Whenever you decide to publish such a book, I’ve got your title and cover art ready...<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Put me down for a pre-order.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">-Brad<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><img width="450" height="576" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.png@01D5FFD4.DF937430" alt="A close up of a bird
Description automatically generated" style="width: 4.6875in; height: 6in;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Outages <<a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>> on behalf of Jay Ashworth via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages@outages.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Jay Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jra@baylink.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, March 20, 2020 at 9:07 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Gary Josack <<a href="mailto:gary@byoteki.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">gary@byoteki.com</a>>, Gary Josack via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages@outages.org</a>>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">patrick@ianai.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages@outages.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[EXTERNAL] Re: [outages] Discord: Sever outages and Increased API errors</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">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 function / routine?<br class=""><br class="">(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 class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On March 20, 2020 11:54:08 PM EDT, Gary Josack via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/62gt9cgjwdgf</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 2:49 PM Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Discord seems to be having issues. It is showing on Down Detector. The splash page says:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T2F7AJRMY-FV5C2QE4A/image.png" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><img border="0" width="32" height="32" id="gmail-m_-68350677258041798879A35860F-5756-4FC1-826C-FE76A8469C13" src="cid:170fb3917e5a2da56b91" style="width: 0.3333in; height: 0.3333in;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The Server Status page shows:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><img border="0" width="32" height="32" id="gmail-m_-6835067725804179887344398FC-E92A-489B-A48F-0C6CFBA91ACB" src="cid:170fb3917e5774fd4222" style="width: 0.3333in; height: 0.3333in;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Mostly FYI.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">-- <br class="">TTFN,<br class="">patrick<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Outages mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Outages@outages.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Outages@outages.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!9IlozgcLDbWntVNJYRLbLSjlkY1RnEa2iRitGoMKZBTwtilpUibKlSbLxIs82I34TA$" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. 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