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And yet Facebook's stock is still up on the day (+.74%)? You'd think being down for hours would be negative news and revenue impacting.
2 hours of downtime in a quarter is 0.09% of downtime -- probably very little effect on their monetization products.
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…
This leaves me wondering what software all these places have in common. The application layers are all different, the databases are all different, the containerization and provisioning systems are different, but I imagine that all these systems rely on two things: the global Internet backbone, and maybe the Linux kernel.
Have there been major security vulnerabilities patched lately in the Linux kernel that could have had unintended consequences?
:/ Something fun happening in Germany? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... And Level3 traffic going to Argentina? https://twitter.com/bgpstream/status/1105819050968580096 And GreatBritain going to cambodia? https://bgpstream.com/event/197968
I’ve seen many systems go down over the last few days worldwide. Aside from the possibility of a mega-DDoS attack (which Facebook denies), all of these organizations have fairly diverse tech stacks to my knowledge. Google’s issue (supposedly) had to do with their Blobstore API, we don’t know what happened with Facebook, and many other, smaller services have had issues as well, including three intranet services at my…
Sometimes you just get unlucky!
:/ Something fun happening in Germany? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... And Level3 traffic going to Argentina? https://twitter.com/bgpstream/status/1105819050968580096 And GreatBritain going to cambodia? https://bgpstream.com/event/197968
As a layperson, can you explain what exactly we're looking at here?
barely - BGP is that complex I'm afraid, but its the wild wild west when it comes to potential nationstate attacks on internet traffic. I wonder if these patterns are typical or worrysome
:/ Something fun happening in Germany? https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... And Level3 traffic going to Argentina? https://twitter.com/bgpstream/status/1105819050968580096 And GreatBritain going to cambodia? https://bgpstream.com/event/197968
https://twitter.com/bgpmon/status/1104919654441467904
Must be because of that Dam blowing up
https://www.newsweek.com/sen-marco-rubio-blames-power-outage...