That's a 2010 outage that someone dug out and was doing the rounds as a new one
--srs ________________________________ From: NANOG <[email protected]> on behalf of cosmo <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 9:50 PM To: Bryan Holloway Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: FB? Facebook pushed an update to their code that manages cookies, that had a rather severe bug in it that resulted in a large flood of requests to their database servers. To deal with this load, they had to prevent all writes and then slowly allow people back on. I saw the writeup for it last night but cannot seem to find it now! Grrr. Did I dream it? On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 8:42 AM Bryan Holloway <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 3/14/19 9:06 AM, Tom Beecher wrote: > As much as I wanted to crack jokes because I cannot stand Facebook (the > product), much love to all you FB engineers that went through (and are > probably still going through) much hell. > +1 on both counts. We've all been there; no bueno.
