I got my github two factor auth SMS two hours late. Fortunately it was just my old laptop. I wonder if it was related. Good reminder to set up an authenticator app on my new phone so I don’t have to rely on SMS!
Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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Increased Error Rates Created by Gary Fitzpatrick · · Facebook Team — Today at 10:32 AM Current State: Investigating Description: We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution. Start Time: 2 hours ago Last Update: about an hour ago Updates: There are currently no updates for this issue.
> Increased Error Rates Created by Gary Fitzpatrick Well someone tell him to stop, for pete's sake!
Pete's in on it too!
Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
#143Facebook's own status dashboard ( https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ ) showed no issues or outtage just 30 min ago. I run a messenger bot platform - the webhooks stopped being delivered _hours_ ago... nothing on their status page until it had been down for hours. Their current issue... "We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are inv…
you get what you pay for
Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
#144Google then Facebook and Instagram? My hunch is that it's the end of Q1 and people are trying to release code changes so they can pad their Q1 performance reviews "designed and delivered feature X on time in Q1".
Year end performance reviews are the most important..those were already done at most companies.
Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
#145And yet Facebook's stock is still up on the day (+.74%)? You'd think being down for hours would be negative news and revenue impacting.
2 hours of downtime in a quarter is 0.09% of downtime -- probably very little effect on their monetization products.
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A nuclear war could take out an AWS region and we'd get an "increased error rates" informational message.
Are you saying that a cold-war-era system like the internet/arpanet meant to survive a nuclear war might be vulnerable to an attack if we take all the code and data and store it in the same place? :-)
Cloud is not much different then
Mainframe Computing 2.0.
I'm already curious and have been pondering about this for quite a while to understand what/how/when we will see a disruption of this.
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Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.
That doesn't make any sense, given that the "traffic" tab's scale says "7% above normal". The red are the areas with the most attacks, and as you'd expect, they correspond to large population centers. (It's also not very granular, and appears to largely correspond to "where does Akamai have a datacenter".)
It’s a poorly designed graphic that’s hard to get any real info from.
Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
#148Google then Facebook and Instagram? My hunch is that it's the end of Q1 and people are trying to release code changes so they can pad their Q1 performance reviews "designed and delivered feature X on time in Q1".
Year end performance reviews are the most important..those were already done at most companies.
I've seen all quarter ends being targets for releases. And things that have been delayed since start of the end of the year are usually pushed to the end of Q1.
Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
#149The only things that I can think of that would cause this scale of being down is either a T1 center outage or (conspiracy hat on) a major hack and everyone is rush patching Would be interesting to read the post mortem if there is any regardless
If rush patching were going on, we’d likely see some hints in commit messages of open source projects, like the Linux kernel commits that were tipoffs to Meltdown and Spectre.
Edit: Has anyone seen anything of this sort in any of the projects they follow?
Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
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Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.
Alternate Post Mortem: Cyber WWIII's first public skirmishes become visible... (Ignore Stuxnet, Ignore DUQU)
/me puts on tin foil hat
It's the rice grain implants, man