Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."

not very technical

[datapharmer]

The technical details are that I have an incompatible browser? Really Slashdot? Did you even check the links? of course not...

Twitter...

[PmanAce]

I wonder if Twitter had a noticable increase in usage during the Facebook outage, or other social portals?

Re:"mass hysteria"?

[kurokame]

To be fair, most grad students use Facebook primarily to help remind them that they need to come up for air occasionally. If it goes down and temporarily stops vying for their attention, they're likely to continue being absorbed with analyzing the data from their last attempt to apply an epicycle-based model to the sociology of small town karaoke sessions given a behavioral-political tensor formulation of motivation in a multidimensional vector space representing cheese.

Re:Link to Facebook Blog Post

[Charliemopps]

Wow, I'm impressed by the detail they provided. More companies should handle outages like this. Makes them look like they know what they're doing, they figured it out, and it wont happen again. Instead of the typical stance of pretending it never happened.