My son and I painted a house
We have a small wooden house for the boys to play in, in the yard. My older son and I went to the paint store and bought the colors he chose, then I taught him how to paint with a roller, while I cut all the edges. It was a fantastic father and son activity and now he has a true sense of ownership over that little house.
AWS Outage
Amazon Web Services is a web hosting service provided by Amazon. The main selling point is you can host your web app and the service you need from AWS will grow as the users of your web app increase. There’s more to it but that’s the gist. It’s very popular and tons of businesses use AWS servers.
So one of the major regional hubs for AWS (US-EAST-1) bottomed out and stopped delivering service. Hundreds of thousands of businesses’ websites, apps and digital platforms just stopped working – and for an extended period of time. (The second-to-worst tech issue besides an outage is extended downtime. Think of having a problem with a Netflix movie so you reload it and play; no big deal. But if all Netflix went down for a while, your TV time is over. That’s an extended outage.) AWS outage persisted for several hours.
This is going to be a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit.
And there’s a ripple effect that comes from these outages with major service providers. For example, I don’t use any AWS service for my business. We use other services directly and indirectly. Those services however may use AWS services which could affect their delivery of service to my company, which could affect operations for my business, thus a massive, global ripple effect.
Fortunately, none of our ops were affected. Woohoo!
Show and Tell
Are you smarter than a kindergartner? My son is in Pre-K and has to take something from home to school each week and show it to the class. Each thing must fit into a gallon-sized bag, and before revealing it, he gives three clues to the class to try and guess what it is. Here are the clues:
- It’s oval-shaped.
- It’s filled with candy.
- You have to search for it.
Last week’s answer: Drawing
Ai Voice Assistant (try it)
I just got a new voice agent set up on my company’s phone. Her name is Manon – she thinks she’s from France even though she’ll acknowledge she’s an Ai.
Callers can ask her about my company, Entrepositive. They can complete the Hero’s Journey entirely by voice. Give it a try +1-203-539-0762. Hint: you can also ask to “talk to Eric”.