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Can't wait for the post mortem technical post

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There's some explanation by CloudFlare available [0]. But for sure that'd be interesting to read facebooks version.

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

If past outages are anything to go by there’s no chance of this seeing the light of day.

This one in particular seems interesting. Felt like one of the longer outages with soo many different sites effected.

This one will definitely see the light of day considering how big a deal it is. Shareholders could easily sue over it.

What makes you think shareholders could sue over this outage without knowing the cause?

They could sue over Facebook not telling them the cause

Shareholders aren't entitled to know every detail of a company's operations, including why outages occur.

Here's hoping to a whistleblower...

mark accidentally logged out. first time he'd done it since it started.

Who's "mark"?

Refers to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook

And Founder of Our Feast!

Facebook, unlike other big tech companies, has no financial incentive to share postmortems. Others are bound by SLA agreements with business customers.

Well, as someone that has an app that had degraded performance due to their SDK failing to talk to Facebook servers. I FOR ONE would really like an explanation.

Then collaborate with your peers to get enough leverage over Facebook to demand this.

It’s not like FB’s market position let’s them dictate terms in an unfair way that would require a certain governing force to step in and rebalance the tables……

I assume that if your business relies on this service you have an account representative you can contact for help with technical and billing issues?

FB does have business customers with (at least) Workplace. Hence the name of this dashboard.

I've seen a couple predominant tin-foil-hat theories are making the rounds:

  - a disgruntled NOC engineer   
  - the company is scrubbing any/all data related to the leak that 60 Minutes reported

It seems pretty astonishing that all BGP routing just vanished.

I'm guessing the only way we'll find out is if an insider spills the beans.

Allegedly, this was a BGP update gone wrong that locked out their remote access. And the people with physical access didn't have the necessary privileges to fix the issue.

Zuck is writing it now.

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