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Subject: Re: [outages] Facebook Engineering on today's outage
From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill ! com>
Date: 2010-09-25 5:07:36
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919
>
> Apparently, our surmise about Akamai notwithstanding, the problem was actually
> internal to their app-specific caching facilities, which went into Sorcerer's
> Apprentice mode, and they had to kill them all and let ghod sort them out.
>
> More if I get it; hope that posting's public.
That was a model postmortem. Wish more companies had that sort of
detail and clarity around what went wrong and what was being done to
fix it.
/vijay
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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