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Re: Facebook Engineering on today's outage
From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:07:36 -0700
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919 Apparently, our surmise about Akamai notwithstanding, the problem was actually internal to their app-specific caching facilities, which went into Sorcerer's Apprentice mode, and they had to kill them all and let ghod sort them out. More if I get it; hope that posting's public.
That was a model postmortem. Wish more companies had that sort of detail and clarity around what went wrong and what was being done to fix it. /vijay
Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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