About yesterday’s Pingdom outage

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http://blog.pingdom.com/2011/06/22/about-yesterday%E2%80%99s-pingdom-outage/

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Wow - they only had one location handling sending out alerts??

Message and alert functionality in an application is one of the biggest low-hanging fruits for moving to a more distributed architecture. To the point where it's almost a textbook example.

This is most disappointing.