WhatsApp outage reported around the world

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Post by sirteno » Wed, May 03, 2017, 10:06 PM UTC

WhatsApp outage reported around the world
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Re: WhatsApp outage reported around the world

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Post by Cieplak » Wed, May 03, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

I wonder if they migrated their infra over to facebook's, and if they're still running Erlang/OTP on FreeBSD boxes.

Re: WhatsApp outage reported around the world

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Post by trtimes » Wed, May 03, 2017, 10:45 PM UTC

https://www.thereportertimes.com/technology/whatsapp-down-br...

Re: WhatsApp outage reported around the world

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Post by ars » Wed, May 03, 2017, 10:46 PM UTC

Being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260026

Re: WhatsApp outage reported around the world

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Post by gradientdescent » Wed, May 03, 2017, 10:58 PM UTC

Cieplak wrote: post #2

I wonder if they migrated their infra over to facebook's, and if they're still running Erlang/OTP on FreeBSD boxes.

There is an interview where Jan mentions that "thanks to Facebook's infrastructure" they can use local servers in India to send msgs to and from, instead of going to Palo Alto all the time. It's unlikely, that the sever setup there has changed. It's unknown to me what the (new) decentralized infrastructure setup is