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What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.
https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/expired-certificate-ericsso...
Google and FB having successive outages? Is this just a coincidence or is there some shared infrastructure that would explain this?
https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-outage-on-east-coast...
Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on. Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a smal…
I guess to accurately represent things on Facebook you'd have to say something like conspiracy posts about AOC, Bernie, and Dan Chrenshaw. 2x1 Ratio.
You could have also said, "political conspiracy theories". I get annoyed by conspiracies on either side personally, but I can see how some people would see more of one than the other based on their friends.
Edit: Re-read some of what I wrote and I want to clarify, this isn't me saying i down-voted you. Just an observation.
All joking aside, is this news? :/
What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.
Source: Me. My career has been spent managing db's for internet scale sites.
If you use their API and haven't seen it yet, their issue is listed here on their status page: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/55989644784543...
Looks like the status page is down for me as well.
Current State: Investigating
Description: We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution.
Start Time: 2 hours ago
Last Update: about an hour ago
Updates: There are currently no updates for this issue.
My hunch is that it's the end of Q1 and people are trying to release code changes so they can pad their Q1 performance reviews "designed and delivered feature X on time in Q1".
From Google I got an error clicking on instagram and Quora links today.
All my funny cat videos and memes are loading fine. Did you try rebooting your router 62 times? All joking aside, is this news? :/
Yes, that seems like appropriate news for "hacker news", a website where people discuss technology news.