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Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by jimmy2020 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:50 PM UTC

vesinisa wrote: post #103

chaos_emergent wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably an intern doing something dumb.

If an intern can bring down the whole presence of your company online it's not the intern who is dumb.

bingo

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by purec » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:51 PM UTC

Back up

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by dividedbyzero » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC

always_left wrote: post #32

Any bets on what happened? Fat Fingers?

Containment breach in the AI department, they are currently bombing the site from space, the outages are collateral damage.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by jonny_eh » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC

cure wrote: post #49

grensley wrote: post #27

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

Probably DNS. It's always DNS ;)

or BGP, or auth.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by dividedbyzero » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC

godelmachine wrote: post #19

I hope they publish a postmortem.

Do they usually?

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by abujazar » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC

Perhaps they had to patch some critical vulnerability like the one that exposed 533M personal records and did the right thing by pressing the red button™

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by fishnchips » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:55 PM UTC

rogerdickey wrote: post #92

grensley wrote: post #27

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

How does it stay up as much as it does :)

Blood, sweat, tears and caffeine.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:55 PM UTC

grensley wrote: post #27

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

I'll be curious about it coming back up. It's the sort of site where there's an army of people continually trying to reload the page if something isn't working.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by MattGaiser » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:56 PM UTC

chaos_emergent wrote: post #46

grensley wrote: post #27

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

Probably an intern doing something dumb.

An intern shouldn't have those permissions.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by wqsz7xn » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:56 PM UTC

Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.