If you needed any more evidence that memory safety is the future...

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 2 12:56:06 PST 2017


On Sunday, 26 February 2017 at 03:54:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> On 02/24/2017 12:47 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> The elephant in the room is that the recent craze surrounding 
>> the "cloud" has conveniently collected large numbers of online 
>> services under a small number of umbrellas, thereby greatly
>> expanding the impact of any bug that occurs in the umbrella.
>> Instead of a nasty bug that impacts merely one or two domains,
>> we now have a nasty bug that singlehandedly affects 4
>> *million* domains.  Way to go, "cloud" technology!
>>
>
> Indeed. The big original *point* of what became the internet, 
> and why the internet got as successful as it did, was 
> decentralization. The past decade or so of recentralization is 
> a shame, to say the least. But I suppose it was inevitable: Now 
> that corporations are involved, corporate interests are 
> involved, and corporate motivator #1 is "control as much of the 
> territory as you can: size == profit".

Yet another nail in the coffin:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/


--T


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