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Is WhatsApp down?
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Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#72It is coming back in Brazil, already.
Interestingly, their Status Twitter account says "We are working very hard to make this twitter account irrelevant.". As it has not been updated at all today, I'd say they have accomplished it.
Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#73Back online in US (Bay Area). Waiting for the post-mortem now.
Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#74Any Post-mortem Yet ?
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#75Account created a day ago. Is it really Jan Koum?
From what he says and from the karma going up the account seems legit
We can't expect him "to tweet his HN-Name" for verification. He could, though I expect him to have strong opinions on things in general (leading to quickly reject a lot of (wrong) paths)
Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#76I wonder if WhatsApp's infrastructure is still built on Erlang. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
It's impossible for them to migrate away from it today _silently_
The question is "What is their status with their setup today: Want to keep Erlang or migrate to Go/Java/Rust"
Anyway... Erlang is considered to be the/a main reason for their success bcs it keeps out the mediocre Java-Developers
Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#77Account created a day ago. Is it really Jan Koum?
From what he says and from the karma going up the account seems legit We can't expect him "to tweet his HN-Name" for verification. He could, though I expect him to have strong opinions on things in general (leading to quickly reject a lot of (wrong) paths)
My point was, the account was taken by someone a day ago. And I am pretty sure Jan Koum would not be commenting on HN article at the time of a massive outage in WhatsApp. It may be him, but very unlikely. My 2 cents.
Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
From what he says and from the karma going up the account seems legit We can't expect him "to tweet his HN-Name" for verification. He could, though I expect him to have strong opinions on things in general (leading to quickly reject a lot of (wrong) paths)
My point was, the account was taken by someone a day ago. And I am pretty sure Jan Koum would not be commenting on HN article at the time of a massive outage in WhatsApp. It may be him, but very unlikely. My 2 cents.
He should be busily working on resolving it
Or doing the PR part
(Which is talking to ppl on HN ofc ;)
Re: Is WhatsApp down?
#79Account created a day ago. Is it really Jan Koum?
I believe so.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260565 and marked it off-topic.