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
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