Guru Mediation Error?

[TenEightyOne]

I'm seeing this all over GTP in Twitter quotes. Twitter seems 'up' for me, it's possibly transient network issues but I thought I'd let you know

 

[TenEightyOne]

Fastly has gone down globally. Any sites using them for the whole site or serving content (images, CSS) is having these problems.

https://status.fastly.com/

Thanks for that - I came back here to say I was suddenly seeing it in far more places, thanks for the explanation

 

[Samus]

Thanks for that - I came back here to say I was suddenly seeing it in far more places, thanks for the explanation

No worries, it seems pretty bad. So many big sites totally out of action and others hobbled.

Fastly stocks are going to be down fastly..

 

[Famine]

Never understood why they changed it from Guru Meditation Error. At least that made sense.

 

[Jordan]

Never understood why they changed it from Guru Meditation Error. At least that made sense.

While reading up on Fastly's downtime today, I actually found the explanation for this...

The error message comes from a type of caching software called Varnish. It's open-source and widely used by a lot of websites. Fastly also uses Varnish in their content delivery service, which acts as a cache between a site's servers and its users.

The actual Varnish error message is "Meditation" (the project's logo is a meditating rabbit), but Fastly engineers changed the error message to "Mediation" in their Varnish servers so they could quickly tell if the problem was with their infrastructure or their customer's.

 

[Famine]

While reading up on Fastly's downtime today, I actually found the explanation for this...

The error message comes from a type of caching software called Varnish. It's open-source and widely used by a lot of websites. Fastly also uses Varnish in their content delivery service, which acts as a cache between a site's servers and its users.

The actual Varnish error message is "Meditation" (the project's logo is a meditating rabbit), but Fastly engineers changed the error message to "Mediation" in their Varnish servers so they could quickly tell if the problem was with their infrastructure or their customer's.

The Meditation phrase dates back to the Amiga, and it started as a joke based around a game where developers would sit crosslegged (like a guru, meditating) on a balance controller called the Joyboard, and if they weren't motionless enough it tipped too far and they lost the game - a guru meditation error.

Used to pop up all the time on the A500. Never had a clue what it meant, but apparently it just means "everything's broken proper hard".

 

[DJShadesUK]

Used to pop up all the time on the A500