Facebook Says Some of Its Services Are Having Issues Again (theverge.com) 32
Instagram has been experiencing issues for many of us here at The Verge, but it turns out that the problem might be broader than that, according to a statement from Facebook. From a report: "We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," Facebook said in a tweet. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience."
So hard to hire good help these days (Score:3)
Facebook must not be paying enough to hire good staff? Or is there some correlation between technical competence to run a massive network and moral unwillingness to obey the orders?
I'd still like to see a viable solution approach, but the problems with Facebook are so messy and numerous that it seems unlikely. So how about trying to pick the #1 problem? From that angle I'd say it's the size, because the bigger Facebook gets, the bigger every other Facebook-related problem becomes. (And my general (but imagi
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> Facebook must not be paying enough to hire good staff?
Good quality failover and high availability is very easy to draw on a whiteboard, or mark on a checklist or business plan. It's often more difficult in the real world, where the expense of maintaining multiple high availability inbound and outbound routes for access is much higher. It's also compounded by the fiscal or business desire to route traffic internally rather than over external routes.
Combine this with the typical desire of large companies
Doesn't matter if they talk bad or good about you (Score:2)
It's good marketing
Re: Doesn't matter if they talk bad or good about (Score:2)
Playing the victim of difficult times gets sympathy.
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They're taking services down 'cause they know each time without social media, the world becomes a little better place to live in.
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Hey,maybe their just being altruistic....
They're taking services down 'cause they know each time without social media, the world becomes a little better place to live in.
One has to wonder how just when the Pandora Papers were released, why FB when down so hard. As if they were trying to hide something or maybe distract the plebs.
Re: Doesn't matter if they talk bad or good about (Score:2)
Don't know, as other articles pointed out, traditional news and media use went up so the result was more people reading about it.
Eh? (Score:2, Troll)
Why does anyone here care about whether Facebook is up or down? It's not as if educated, intelligent, rational people use Facebook... do they?
Re:Eh? (Score:5, Funny)
No, we don't. We just like the schadenfreude.
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Facebook is already too big to fail? (Score:3)
Sad and no reason to doubt it's true, whether it is "too many websites are linked to Facebook" or "Facebook is too big".
I'm certainly hoping that Facebook doesn't get rewarded for the speculative and spectacular incompetence, the way the big banks got rewarded after the YUGE splash of the mortgage crash in 2007-8. A lot of rich bastards certainly deserved to go to jail for that one, but didn't. Instead, they came out bigger and "safer" than ever.
So how many Senators has Facebook bought so far? Or should we
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No, but if I couldn't read it here, I wouldn't even know that FB is having issues.
I was already wondering, some coworkers were a lot more obnoxious today... Can we get FB back online please? I need to get work done and the constant interruptions really cut into my productivity!
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Apparently nobody does negative caching anymore so when Facebook DNS goes down the clients hammer the DNS infrastructure with a 30x traffic spike.
Re: Eh? (Score:1)
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Many tools avoid it because they seek instant service once the DNS is valid again. Negative caching is problematic if your services is frequently interrupted for any reason, such as switching wifi access points when traveling, high local traffic, or delays connecting a VPN after pausing for lunch.
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Why does anyone here care about whether Facebook is up or down? It's not as if educated, intelligent, rational people use Facebook... do they?
I know lots of fellow parents who use it to keep grandparents and other family in touch with their young grandkids. What are the alternatives? You could just store pictures+videos on a shared drive somewhere, but then you'd miss out on the social interactions and questions and discussions that are just as important as the pictures+videos. You could use email but then you'd have find another place to keep photos+videos and keep them in sync which is a pain and beyond the abilities of most non-techies, and it
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Why does anyone here care about whether Facebook is up or down? It's not as if educated, intelligent, rational people use Facebook... do they?
I know lots of fellow parents who use it to keep grandparents and other family in touch with their young grandkids. What are the alternatives?
Imagine a world where everyone had a personal communication device with them nearly all the time...or a car.
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Facebook? No. WhatsApp? Absolutely. It's a critical communications medium in my country.
Back to Facebook Jail Facebook! (Score:5, Interesting)
And nothing of any real worth was lost...or even missed...
Stefan is at it again (Score:1)
Correction... (Score:2, Insightful)
ALL of it's services are having issues. And have been for a long time. The only permanent cure is to simply stop using it. But I suspect that enough people are sufficiently addicted to it that all will be forgiven and they will return to their "news" feed.
I would lump in Facebook with tobacco, sugar, junk food, porn and alcohol. In small doses they can be tolerable but any amount of overuse leads to problems. As with all the other items on the list the best strategy is to never use them at all and avoid any
Move fast (Score:3)
That is what happens when your motto is "Move fast and break things." Things get broken.
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Agile. :(
I feel guilty for feeling (Score:2)
glad Putie pulled this off. Slick work.
Follow-on to the new tax legislation needed (Score:2)
So, they've now put an international agreement into place that will (eventually) limit the tax-dodging ability of huge corporations.
Now they need a follow-on agreement: Prevent companies from getting so huge in the first place. Above a certain size, acquisitions should be completely forbidden. Facebook should not own Instagram, WhatsApp, and all these other companies. [wikipedia.org] Many of those were potential competition, now safely absorbed.