Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

Post by dboreham » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 8:49 PM UTC

heavymark wrote: post #24

I first noticed Instagram then realized it was Facebook and their other properties such as What's App as well. Is very odd all of these major outages this week. By Cloudflare at least said it was an employee error, so assuming it's not subtle attacks by other countries unless companies like Cloudflare are required to legally provide an alternate story for national security.

Post by dboreham » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 8:50 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #64

smt88 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) Cryptocurrency ops are so vastly different from running a social website that I can't even think of any overlap. 2) I hate Facebook as a company, but as a builder/scaler of web apps for many years, I'm continually blown away by the speed and reliability of their website. Their operations are mind-blowing. The only comparable apps (in terms of scale) are Gmail and YouTube, and Gmail is simpler in certain key areas…

Cryptocurrency ops are so vastly different from running a social website that I can't even think of any overlap I know nothing about how cryptocurrency works, but wouldn't social media outage sources like multiple server failures, hurricane, tornado, sliced fiber line, etc... affect the kind of cryptocurrency that Facebook is embarking on? Or is there something in the "distributed" nature of cryptocurrency that makes…

Post by dmitrygr » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 9:06 PM UTC

trevor-e wrote: post #95

the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

I agree that the probability of these occurring so close together is very unlikely. Separately, this is a huge blow for Instagram/Facebook since this is one of the busiest social media sharing weeks in the US. I bet a lot of their engineers are answering pagers on vacation.

Post by edwintorok » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

o_p wrote: post #121

A perfect moment to evangelize my contacts about Telegram...

Post by qwertox » Wed, Jul 03, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.