On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <j...@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 > > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink ...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 > St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 > > Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. > Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. > >