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Re: FB?
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:21:10 +0000
That's a 2010 outage that someone dug out and was doing the rounds as a new one --srs ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of cosmo <clinton.mielke () gmail com> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 9:50 PM To: Bryan Holloway Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: FB? Facebook pushed an update to their code that manages cookies, that had a rather severe bug in it that resulted in a large flood of requests to their database servers. To deal with this load, they had to prevent all writes and then slowly allow people back on. I saw the writeup for it last night but cannot seem to find it now! Grrr. Did I dream it? On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 8:42 AM Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net<mailto:bryan () shout net>> wrote: On 3/14/19 9:06 AM, Tom Beecher wrote:
As much as I wanted to crack jokes because I cannot stand Facebook (the product), much love to all you FB engineers that went through (and are probably still going through) much hell.
+1 on both counts. We've all been there; no bueno.
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