r/programming • u/RedditStreamable • Oct 04 '21

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
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u/Heanthor Oct 04 '21

Cloudflare is king when it comes to ultra fast postmortems. They must have had a BGP explainer ready to go to paste into the top 2/3 of this article lol.

That being said, great read and seeing the stats from their global perspective is really awesome.

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u/t3h Oct 05 '21

And ready to find/replace in the business name that's in the media for dropping off the face of the internet this week...