Sentence examples for infrastructure goes down from inspiring English sources
If the infrastructure goes down, so does the technology relying on it.
But what if your IT infrastructure goes down and there's nothing you can do because your computing power sits in the cloud, provided over the internet by another company?
The argument here is pretty straightforward: if your infrastructure goes down, then Jira Opes could also go do down — and then you don't have a tool for managing that downtime.
The cloud's reliability was called into question most sharply in April 2011, when large portions of Amazon's Web Services infrastructure went down for as long as three days.
At the end of last year, Netflix suffered a prolonged outage because Amazon's cloud services, which Netflix uses to host most of its infrastructure, went down.
Giant institutions wobbled or crashed; extended unemployment wouldn't go away; foreclosures happened on a mind-boggling scale; infrastructure began to buckle; state budgets were caught in a death grip; teachers' jobs, another kind of infrastructure, went down the tubes in startling numbers; and the federal deficit soared.
A swarm of small satellites could give critical infrastructure an Internet connection that never goes down.
For the applications built on top of Amazon, sometimes negative consequences from these events can cascade through your infrastructure (e.g. when one service goes down, it then overloads another service that was otherwise fine), and in other cases some apps just don't have resilience for these events built into their software.
For the applications built on top of Amazon, sometimes negative consequences from these events can cascade through your infrastructure (e.g. when one service goes down, it then overloads another service that was otherwise fine), and in other cases some apps just don't have resilience for these events built into their software.
"What happens if something were to go wrong with the transport infrastructure - for instance, if there's a signal failure in central London and a key line goes down?" asks Steven Hartley, an analyst with Ovum.
