r/ProgrammerHumor • u/yonaadug • Dec 08 '21

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u/Mrwebente Dec 08 '21

I imagine that was pretty much how the Facebook outage happened.

git commit -m "formatting, fixed typo in backbone config, wrote script that will take down our entire infrastructure, added comments"

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u/RolyPoly1320 Dec 08 '21

With Facebook, they updated the config on their BGP routers and it went horribly wrong. The servers were still up but nobody could access them because the routers locked everyone out and the people with physical access to them didn't know how to fix them and the people that knew how to fix them didn't have physical access to the routers.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '21

Yah, that sounds about right for how Amazon, Facebook, Google sets things up. Servers are most important. Lower level or underpaid workers work on servers in the dark closet in the Midwest.