Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.
Facebook was down
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#142https://www.prod.facebook.com still works. :)
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#143How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…
People are excited, since this is one of the core missions and thinking in facebook - never be down, or people will go elsewhere. That's why it's a big deal, not everyday something goes that wrong, especially in something you put a lot efforts in.
Where will the people go? An engineer from Bloomberg was telling me once about their infrastructure, how fault tolerant and highly available it is, they have redundancy everywhere, including power from two different power plants. He said if they were down for few minutes they would be out of business - users of their trading platform would switch to Reuters very quickly. But where will Facebook users go if the site is down for a day? I'm genuinely curious.
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#144Maybe they are trying out their new switches. http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-swit...
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#145HN: the new Pingdom.
Speaking of pingdom... http://imgur.com/4r3rEGp
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#146I wonder what's happening with the stock price, if anybody as any insight that'd be interesting to know.
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#148...and they're back.
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#149As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)
They have all your data. Keeping the site online would just cost money.
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#150How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…
Many of us who read Hacker News are employed in the technology industry and have a particular interest in reliability and availability of computer systems. It's not interesting that people can't post their personality quizzes, but it is very interesting that Facebook had a production outage, particularly if we are able to learn something from the failure that we can apply to future scenarios we may encounter.