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The fact that these are called outages is kind of alarming. Do people rely on any of these as their exclusive communication when in danger?
https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...
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4) People love to find patterns where none exist
This is a fallacy all humans experience, however, what is the probability specifically that all these problems are unrelated? At what probability is it mathematically impossible that these problems are unrelated? AFAF
"Impossible" means "impossible", not "unbelievably improbable".
That's even more true when you ask about "mathematically impossible", as it reinforces the idea of formal logic being the relevant domain, where precise meaning of words is fundamental.
If you adjust your question to be "at what probability is it unreasonable to claim these problems are unrelated?", then the answer is subjective - different people have different standards for reasonability.
I think we'd need mountains more data than we have about the incidents to compute a meaningful probability, anyway.
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.
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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.
If you have your work with you, it isn't a vacation.
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.
HN still seems to be working, perhaps they should consider hosting their own cloud?
I remind about a video when Larry Ellison mentioned the cloud and I thought: "What is he speaking about? It's the internet".
How I was wrong...
Now we are in a situation where we have too much concentration and we are experiencing that. It's a problem.
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Afghani independence day? Or Iraqi independence day? Or did you mean Libian independence day? Syrian perhaps? In NL there is currently no independence day.
Parent is referring to the holiday tomorrow in the United States.
Browsing it right now is a good exercise for devs who need to make sure they think about low vision/blind users who browse via audio, etc. ie "Image may contain: a dog, sunglasses"
Looks like Facebook image store is having issues. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp use the same image store, so all the services are affected.
If network capacity is severely reduced, the bulk static content (images/media) is what you'd switch off first.
The fact it's global makes that unlikely tho.
Do you remember when we first heard about "the cloud"? I remind about a video when Larry Ellison mentioned the cloud and I thought: "What is he speaking about? It's the internet". How I was wrong... Now we are in a situation where we have too much concentration and we are experiencing that. It's a problem.