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The REAL reason Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram broke revealed
https://www.thesun.co.uk ^ | 10:16, 5 Oct 2021 Updated: 10:26, 5 Oct 2021 | Sean Keach, Digital Technology and Science Editor

Posted on 10/06/2021 10:17:16 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: lepton

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41 posted on 10/06/2021 1:40:23 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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42 posted on 10/06/2021 1:47:18 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: al baby

Well....I’ve heard that it cost Zuck $6 billion. Kind of an expense exercise, even if it was all on paper.


43 posted on 10/06/2021 1:47:46 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: srmanuel; higgmeister

It very well may have been the middle of the night when this “update” happened.

facebook is a global company, and you can bet they use as much cheap asian labor as they can hire.


44 posted on 10/06/2021 1:50:52 PM PDT by Augie
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To: Red Badger

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45 posted on 10/06/2021 2:11:58 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: al baby

Absolutely.

No. This is too easy to fix.


46 posted on 10/06/2021 4:19:17 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Red Badger

I am a network administrator who is primarily concerned with DNS stuff these days. It is hard to have sympathy for anyone who works for a corporation as evil as fakebook, but I can pretty much tell you that the poor bastards who run their DNS servers were probably being blamed completely for this for about 2 hours of the outage before they were able to PROVE that it wasn’t DNS and had people looking seriously elsewhere.


47 posted on 10/06/2021 5:25:20 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: srmanuel
If you saw Facebook and the other apps go offline you would stop and reverse the changes, but it seemed that facebook did not know what went wrong and it took them a number of hours to figure out the problem and get it reversed...that seemed really odd to me...

What's an alternative reason they could have 'missed' this - you know - other than incompetence. Is there a rational reason?

48 posted on 10/09/2021 11:39:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (Military suicide deaths last year: 580- By COVID:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOC_dcuJO48)
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I’ve have never been involved with any situation that shutdown the entire company, but I have been involved in numerous IT situations where the impact was quite large....

The actual engineers probably knew what the issue was and how to fix it, but the managers were busy trying pin blame on someone besides themselves or tried to come up with excuses that the issue could not have been foreseen

So Facebook had paralysis by analysis....instead of just fixing the issue and then figuring out what went wrong, they had meeting after meeting tying to shift blame and not taking responsibility..this is typical of most large corporations when no one person wants to make a decision that might come back on them, they all want consensus of the final decision...


49 posted on 10/09/2021 11:54:08 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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