[129997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facebook Engineering on today's outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vijay gill)
Sat Sep 25 01:07:51 2010
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:07:36 -0700
From: vijay gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: outages@outages.org, nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@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 act=
ually
> internal to their app-specific caching facilities, which went into Sorcer=
er'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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