Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage

aabelro writes "On December 22th, 1600 GMT, the Skype services started to become unavailable, in the beginning for a small part of the users, then for more and more, until the network was down for about 24 hours. A week later, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, explained what happened in a post-mortem analysis of the outage."

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Skype sucks?

[LoudMusic]

Skype sucks, don't use Skype?

Re:How are supernodes defined?

[circletimessquare]

if a company writes "your first born is owned by us" in the small print that does not entitle them to anything. the idea that you must absorb yourself in legalistic muck just to use a piece of software is a fantasy of lawyers and idiots like yourself, but holds no relevance to reality. skype has a responsibility to act honorably, no matter what the fuck it writes in the small print, and for you to excuse some slimy company on such flimsy grounds makes you nothing more than an ignorant asshole. why do you side with company and not the consumer? do you not understand the power imbalance here? or apparently you do, and you like the power imbalance just fine. again: then you are an asshole