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Detailed analysis on the facebook outage

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

English - October 06, 2021 20:29 - 43 minutes - 25.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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In this episode, I go through the Facebook detailed article regarding their October 4th, 2021 outage and discuss it in length. enjoy




Facebook blog: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/




0:00 Introduction on Facebook Networking Architecture


12:00 The Cause of the Outage


17:00 What’s DNS


23:00 DNS Servers disabled BGP ads


27:00 Could the outage have been prevented?


32:00 Why did it take so long?


38:00 Why you can’t just flip everything on


41:30 Summary




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