Re: FB?

[cosmo <clinton.mielke () gmail com>]

Looks like Google recently posted their post-mortem of their outage on the
12th
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/storage/19002

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:21 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
wrote:

> That's a 2010 outage that someone dug out and was doing the rounds as a
> new one
>
> --srs
>
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> *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> 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.