Ducks in a Row: Shocking Reaction
by Miki Saxon
Way back in the 1965 there was a major blackout that knocked out power throughout the Northeast. It may not have actually increased the birthrate nine months later (that’s an urban myth), but I know from friends who lived there that after the sun went down the choices of what to do were limited, so many fell back on age-old entertainment.
So what happens when technology goes down?
A foreshadowing came in early December when the Azure Cloud was incapacitated.
Under the heading “Services Experiencing Downstream Impact from Azure Active Directory” Azure’s status page additionally clarified:
Engineers are engaged on an underlying Azure Active Directory issue impacted several Azure properties that rely on the service. Services currently reporting impact include Web App, Operational Insights, Machine Learning, portal.azure.com and manage.windowsazure.com. Updates to this message will be provided as events warrant.
One Reg reader whose office has thoroughly adopted the cloud informed us of the savagery this outage is causing their colleagues to stoop to: “Some people seem to have got a connection, but most of us have now given up and some have even taken the drastic measure of actually talking to each other. It’s most unnatural!”
Can you imagine the shock and consternation when colleagues actually had to talk directly to each other?
And just in case our message is too subtle for you, the world is not improved when talking directly to another human being is considered unnatural by even one person.
Hat tip to KG for taking time to send this.
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