Déjà vu circa April…
History repeats itself again
Déjà vu circa April…
History repeats itself again
Have I missed it?
You missed that everything from ST, while may seem specific to a reasonable person, is actually relative.
For example, the term Weekly.
This is culture. Adopted by the C suite.
Hey, bi-weekly has the word weekly in it, which is better than biannual, which only recently replaced annual. But the reality is, that there shouldn’t be any updates if things would roll like they are supposed to. We don’t need updates on f-ups, we just need no f-ups.
It’s coming. We’re ironing out some details for the full post mortem.
known bug, will get fixed. Eventually. It’s in the javascript realm…
“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” - Leonard Nimoy
Actually Spock quoting Sherlock Holmes. Credit where credit is due and all that.
Haha, leave it to JD to dig up the facts! You are the real authority glad you are here!
Please let us know when we can expect SmartThings to stay stable for at least one month. Based on history, that has never happened.
http://status.smartthings.com/history
Thanks for your time.
I don’t understand the question…? Don’t you think SmartThings is trying to avoid outages? Do you think they have a crystal ball to know exactly when a specific target level of reliability will be reached?
Complex systems inherently have reliability issues. Except for “anomalies” or specific explained reasons for steps-backwards, the best way to predict when a particular level of reliability will be reached is by extrapolating from a trend-line of what should be a steadily increasing “average time between outages” (MTBF), or “Maintenance Free Operating Period” (MFOP) as suggested by @JDRoberts.
MFOP can also be an engineering target.
I think a better question would be: daddy, are we there yet?
Yup…
But the severity of the outages / maintenance is also important to track for trends.
The duration, number of users, and amount of functionality affected, etc., all play a part in measuring severity.
Lol why are you asking new questions when they can’t even answer the promised one:
what happened?
Or: Why do I subject myself to this?
I’m come from a enterprise background and we absolutely have specific target level of reliability set to specific dates. This is especially true for any revenue impacting services where five nines are a minimum.
Your point is taken and I agree with you. It’s my fault for trying to apply enterprise level expectation to a consumer level service like SmartThing but I was shocked to see that there’s NEVER been a single trouble free month in recent history.
So… today is over… yesterday is gone… pretty sure early tomorrow happened already…
still waiting for that “deeper” explanation.
You may be waiting on it, but I know you didn’t expect it.
Honestly, I am hoping we stop reminding ST about all the missed commitments on the weeklys and information commits like this… just let them slide by for weeks/months, etc and then compile the list of failures.
Of course I don’t expect it… what do you think I am? Naive?
I’m just chalking it up to them being a California company and that means most likely they are Democrats… So… I’m just going with the flow and knowing that what they say is not what they mean.
oooops, I went political…