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Re: Facebook was down

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Post by thrusong » Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

sbuccini wrote: post #44

This should make for a good postmortem.

I hope we do actually get a postmortem this time... The outage seems to have come from a code push, and wasn't down too long. They only seem to do postmortems when the problem stems from anything other than code.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by jonny_eh » Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

spicyj wrote: post #46

jonny_eh wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It just loaded for me and says that everything is fine today. That also defeats the purpose.

It's been updated: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901... Someone needs to go update it, you know…

Apparently, but not necessarily.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by iask » Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 7:09 PM UTC

piyush_soni wrote: post #36

Back now.

Instead of hackers, XI came personally to collect data. FB is just being cautious ;)

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by talles » Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

ipince wrote: post #11

moreover, many of the sites that rely on facebook login are down too...

That's the part that worries me more.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by scott_karana » Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 9:12 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #29

Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and…

Compared to the multi-day outages common to cash-strapped startups back in the day, I don't think Facebook is going to suffer unless this happens really frequently.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by lalt » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 12:22 AM UTC

Here's the data from Facebook's three outages over the past month: http://bit.ly/1JAYG9X