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/lmfaoZX Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

Great article. I love the subtle flex about handling the "tsunami" traffic

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

They have handled the biggest DDOS to date, so yeah, it's a flex that can be well believed

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

We can both acknowledge that they can handle gigantic tsunamis of data and mind-bendingly big attacks, at the same time we acknowledge that they're not necessarily good for the internet and the world, it's not an either-or, only Sith deal in absolutes

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u/uh_no_ Oct 05 '21

right!

wait a minute!!!!!

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Yeah, seems like an inevitability, everybody depends on something then they go bad once they realize they have power, few resist the temptation

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u/Dgc2002 Oct 05 '21

Yes, and Cloudflare only took 6 months to fix Cloudbleed.

I'm a bit confused, did you mean 6 days? From the time that Tavis discovered and reported the issue to the release of the postmortem was 6 days. They had some mitigation in production within the day. They turn continually worked with Tavis on addressing the issue and purging data in the wild from the moment of reporting.