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I'm interviewing for a Production Engineer role at Facebook on Monday, thanks for providing relevant "do you have any questions for us" content.
I'm interviewing for a Production Engineer role at Facebook on Monday, thanks for providing relevant "do you have any questions for us" content.
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That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".
Yeah in Turkey people thought government is slowing down/blocking the whole internet
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Even with your platform there will be calls and pain, maybe even lies during an outage. BC-Recordkeeping or not
unscheduled outages are always painful and people will always call, I agree. But instant compensation is doing a better job at damage control that a status page. Keeping customer satisfaction even in bad situation is key in a world of high availability expectations. And with a distributed, non partisan metric sourcing about the availability of an API, it's not possible for a Service Provider to lie anymore. Feel free…
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I'm pretty sure a bunch of Erlang programmers being shoehorned into a PHP codebase is the literal definition of Hell for all parties involved.
Facebook is not a “PHP codebase.” I’d guess that fewer than 0.01% of CPU cycles at Facebook are used by PHP.
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There's something ironic about a social media company being forced to rely on a competitor to facilitate communication between them and their users.
Why? When Facebook is down, you cannot use Facebook to communicate about the issue. That is also reason why FB still uses* irc instead of messenger for coordinating how to resolve such issues. * Or at least used 1 year ago, when I was working there.
I’ve seen many systems go down over the last few days worldwide. Aside from the possibility of a mega-DDoS attack (which Facebook denies), all of these organizations have fairly diverse tech stacks to my knowledge. Google’s issue (supposedly) had to do with their Blobstore API, we don’t know what happened with Facebook, and many other, smaller services have had issues as well, including three intranet services at my…
>This leaves me wondering what software all these places have in common.
dunno what systems you're talking about, but seems likely they are mostly x86 systems and maybe even mostly using Intel hardware and microcode
those systems can-be/are rooted and more, to my knowledge