Support Forums: Message List - Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:49:30 -0400 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:23:52 -0400 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:23:52 -0400 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:23:52 -0400 Aug 22, 2007 Carl Phillips 0 Re: Question of test procedures http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623
What I would like to know more about is what kind of development process Skype uses. Do they use TDD? Are they Agile? Waterfall? Chaotic? How did this kind of bug slip through?

As far as I understand the bug...]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:50:57 -0400 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:50:57 -0400 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:50:57 -0400 Aug 22, 2007 James Watson 0 Question of test procedures http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 What I would like to know more about is what kind of development process Skype uses. Do they use TDD? Are they Agile? Waterfall? Chaotic? How did this kind of bug slip through?...]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:21:27 -0400 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:21:27 -0400 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:21:27 -0400 Aug 22, 2007 Oliver Plohmann 1 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:31:23 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:31:23 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:31:23 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 Dmitriy Setrakyan 0 Inaccurate Post http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:20:17 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:20:17 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:20:17 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 John Mark Walker 0 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 The stock is down about 7% since it's high last week. But that slide started before the Skype outage.So what? Shit happens anyway. PS: the current 52wk Range is 25.25 - 37.44.]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:54:50 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:54:50 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:54:50 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 Rex Guildo 0 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 Perhaps FSV or other tools that verify models statically could be used.FSV = Finite-State Verification]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:45:23 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:45:23 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:45:23 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 Rex Guildo 0 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623
I'm sure your answer would be acceptable to Wall Street. eBay's share price may have been affected. :)
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:42:32 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:42:32 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:42:32 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 James Watson 1 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623
What I would like to know more about is what kind of development process Skype uses. Do they use TDD? Are they Agile? Waterfall? Chaotic? How did this kind of bug slip through?

Some of their job openings...]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:33:41 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:33:41 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:33:41 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 James Watson 2 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 I'm sure your answer would be acceptable to Wall Street. eBay's share price may have been affected. :)
http://mashable.com/2007/08/16/skype-outage/
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That said: how would you have addressed a similar problem on your servers?
Shit happens.
Do you work for Sun?LOL :-) I guess we all work for SUN, somehow.]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:34:15 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:34:15 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:34:15 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 Rex Guildo 0 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:24:53 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:24:53 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:24:53 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 James Watson 6 Re: Skype Outage: What happened on August 16 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46623
That said: how would you have addressed a similar problem on your servers?
Shit happens.Do you work for Sun?]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:09 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:09 -0400 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:09 -0400 Aug 20, 2007 Joseph Ottinger 1