Re: Facebook Engineering on today's outage

2010-09-24 Thread vijay gill
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

Facebook Engineering on today's outage

2010-09-23 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
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