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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…
Really?
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Short duration: network, bad software deploy Long duration: db. If you break data, it takes a while to unbreak. Source: Me. My career has been spent managing db's for internet scale sites.
Nothing worse than that sinking feeling of "oh fuck, we have to backfill a lot of data.
This is bigger than Facebook. https://imgur.com/a/gePwi0i https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...
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…
Gmail and other Google products went down last night. Close though. Thankfully not on Twitter or FB.
Let's see whether we have a spike in the birth rate in 9 months. (Oh, turns out the Great Blackout Baby Boom was a myth: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/from-here-to-maternity/ )
What if there is a fall in birthrate because people can't organise risky hookups without their preferred communication platform?
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I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.
That's why it's called PRISM. It's exactly what you describe. Splitting an optical signal into 2 using, basically, a prism. One signal goes out to the net as normal, the other goes to their own datacenters, that they keep continually building and expanding. The newer ones are being build on military bases, for added security. Check em out. Look at the size and cost of them. Some are over a million sq. ft. That's a lo…
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> "We are trying to gather information, we are making a bunch of client phone calls, we will know after we make those calls." I think that is a yes, and he getting ahead by saying "Yes and we have no idea why or ETA so let us do our job". Granted, they should have a status page.
Last time I dealt with a cloud provider outage the status page was unresponsive during the outage because the status page had some kind of dependency on the resources that were down...
The real storm is realizing through Facebook OAuth you cannot access your affiliate accounts. Caution to move your accounts away from Facebook Edit: Or have other methods than just relying on Facebook authentication
Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…