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		res0nat0r on Feb 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix While working at AWS and seeing outages being posted here, and the wildly inaccurate summaries (guesses) of what the problems were, and the wildly simplistic fixes that are assumed to easily be put in place I can say: systems like this are more complicated than you think they are.

renaudg on Feb 25, 2014 | [–]

A huge +1 to this, from someone who worked at Facebook.

nicholassmith on Feb 26, 2014 | [–]

Agreed, everyone enjoys playing armchair critic and in the majority of the time have no idea how the internal systems are structured or managed.

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