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LOVE good analogies!
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Good time for folks to ask themselves "how much do I rely on this thing I don't pay for?"
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I think it was more of a "we can't trust anybody else, we need to do all this inhouse"
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This is only one of the key stories. It also looks like they made a global change to their networking infrastructure (“BGP”) when they probably intended to make a local one. There is tons of context about how Facebook operates that is relevant here and only known to insiders.
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*incremental, not local There’s likely not a simple explanation here? There will certainly be a precipitating event where someone launched a maintenance task and then
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Excellent analogy. And it's kind of hilarious that they literally couldn't even get in the building, either, at some point. The entry badges weren't working. I just kind of imagine all of the techs trying to yell instructions to the night manager through the doors & windows.

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Downage is word, then?
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im not even sure thats the key story (maybe for fb it is) but for the b|millions of people that heavily rely on fb services like whatsapp its a different story, they organize their lifes on top of the infrastructure of a single corp
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technical failures manmade or otherwise simply happen
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