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vrosastoday at 12:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

Interesting. I guess we’ve learned an important lesson in not building businesses around APIs that don’t have an SLA…


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Dylan16807today at 1:32 AM

How many services have meaningful SLAs for extreme downtime?

Github and (parts of) AWS will give you a small discount at 0.1% downtime, a bigger discount at 1% downtime, and AWS will refund the whole month for 5% downtime. But beyond that they don't care. If a particular customer gets no service at all then their entire $0 gets refunded and that's it.

lerostoday at 1:23 AM

That was just a feature of the product to be helpful. Not a core function at all.