Salesforce Global Outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#11

Post by theshrike79 » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

Was it DNS? Any guesses? :)

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#12

Post by mariopt » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

Could it be people doing Claude/GPT automations and they just can't handle it?

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#13

Post by jtrn » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

And nothing of value was lost. God, I hate everything about Salesforce. Sometimes I have to integrate against their services, and it is always a pain, not to mention what the core project actually is: optimization of marketing and spam.

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#14

Post by AmazingTurtle » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC

You better bet someone started their agents with a prompt "Make a salesforce clone but with 100% uptime"

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#15

Post by danjc » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

It's dns isn't it

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#16

Post by themgt » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:33 AM UTC

Never before in the history of global compute outages was so little lost by so many down servers, whose purpose was known to so few.

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#17

Post by Havoc » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:33 AM UTC

So I guess today everyone gets actual work done

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#18

Post by voidUpdate » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

Wow, the intern must have tripped over a very big power cable this time

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#19

Post by afr0ck » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC

danjc wrote: post #15

It's dns isn't it

Classic

Re: Salesforce Global Outage

#20

Post by monkeydust » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 11:36 AM UTC

Sam speaks at Salesforce.

Salesforce goes down.

No causation here...move on.