Oh no... Anyway...
WhatsApp is pretty important infrastructure for most of the world
For some egregiously loose definitions of "infrastructure," maybe.
Facebook-owned sites were down
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#63Just wondering - would the engineer who made the mistake be fired?
nope. an individual is never blamed for these sort of issues.
Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#64Just wondering - would the engineer who made the mistake be fired?
The only person I've ever heard of being fired for an operational error was a principal networking engineer at Amazon who end-ran DNS policies and hand-edited a zone file. Somehow, the file got truncated. It brought down everything including the soft phones so people couldn't even spin up a phone-based conference call to deal with it. I think Amazon was down for several hours, with 8 digit losses. That was in the mid 2000's. Heard that person was fired but don't know for sure.
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#65Teen depression and suicide rates plummeting right now
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#66Let's hope it's permanent.
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#67Nothing of value was lost
It is a good start.
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#68Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#69Signal FTW
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#70This would be a golden opportunity to launch your 'Facebook Killer' app. Preferably a social network where people don't pay with their data, but with, you know, a thing called Money.