I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing
This project was killed by invisible complexity. I felt a little sad
reading about it. There are lots of comments talking about the
sustainability of projects with respect to money and burnout, the need
to pay for services etc. I get that and agree. But I also get the
impression that wouldn&#x27;t have helped here.<p>When we reach a situation where some unknown person pushes an upstream
update, which causes a cascade of problems that even someone with deep
technical knowledge and daily connection to the project cannot unpick,
that&#x27;s a breakdown in modularity&#x2F;dependency.<p>It&#x27;s what we faced in the 1990s and from it evolved package managers,
version control, dependency management and all the good things.<p>I think in 2022 we&#x27;re back in a similar situation again.
Virtualisation, containers, cloud services and whatnot have regressed
development reliability.<p>I predict the day when a really <i>major</i> service provider comes out and
says; &quot;Sorry everyone. It&#x27;s been 10 days downtime. We&#x27;ve put our 1000
top engineers on the problem and nobody knows what&#x27;s wrong. We just
can&#x27;t fix it.&quot;