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The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports. It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.
Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.
This is bigger than Facebook. https://imgur.com/a/gePwi0i https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...
Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…
"The storm"? It's sunny in the Bay Area for the first time in I don't know how long. I imagine it's nice in other parts of the world as well, other than where this localized "storm" is.
Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…
No, FB datacenters are geographically diverse. They do run quarterly 'storms' where a datacenter is shut down to test failover and resiliency. I have no idea if today is one of those days, since I left last year.
For instance GitHub's relatively recent shutdown was due to a fail-over heartbeat not going as expected.
What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.
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Facebook is a paid advertising platform. There are plenty of people not getting what they paid for as a result of an outage.
ok but you are all talking about the users. facebook platform is free to use for developers as for the advertisers, i doubt they 'll be charged for impressions that didn't happen
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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.
I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.
>>>The New York Times reported in 2005 that the USS Jimmy Carter, a highly advanced submarine that was the only one of its class built, had a capability to tap undersea cables. An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers report speculated that a 45-foot extension added to the Jimmy Carter provided this capability by allowing engineers to bring the cable up into a floodable chamber to install a tap. But it is unlikely that the USS Jimmy Carter routinely taps cables since U.S. intelligence agencies can much more easily (and lawfully) obtain cable data through taps at above-ground cable landing stations.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-russian-threat-unders...
Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…
A company as large and sophisticated as FB has data centers and cloud services in multiple countries, and in the US, probably colocated data centers. Certainly nothing localized to where you are.
Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?