Looks like Google recently posted their post-mortem of their outage on the 12th https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/storage/19002
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:21 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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. >> >
