It seems that all the sites that ask for distributed systems in their interview and has their website down wouldn't even pass their own interview.
This is why distributed systems is an extremely important discipline.
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Maybe actually making the interviews less of a hazing ritual would help.
Hell, maybe making today's tech workplace more about getting work done instead of the series of ritualistic performances that the average tech workday has degenerated to might help too.
Ergo, your conclusion doesn't follow from your initial statements, because interviews and workplaces are both far more broken than most people, even people in the tech industry, would think.
Well it looks like if companies and startups did their job in hiring the proper distributed systems skills more rather than hazing for the wrong skills we wouldn't be in this outage mess.
Many companies on Vercel don't think to have a strategy to be resilient to these outages.
I rarely see Google, Ably and others serious about distributed systems being down.
There was a huuuge GCP outage just a few months back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260810
> Many companies on Vercel don't think to have a strategy to be resilient to these outages.
But that's the job of Vercel and it looks like they did a pretty good job. They rerouted away from the broken region.
distributed systems != continuous uptime
100% wrong.
Serious engineering teams that care about distributed systems and multi region deployments don't think like this.