Well Slack depended on the Cloud(tm). It is a interesting though because a lot o...

tempest_ on Feb 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021

Well Slack depended on the Cloud(tm).

It is a interesting though because a lot of the blog posts like "How we handled a 3000% traffic increase overnight!" boil down to "We turned up the AWS knob".

What happens when the AWS knob doesn't work?

buildawesome on Feb 1, 2021 [–]

You do what Slack did and call the maker of the AWS Knob:tm:.