The great Facebook fallover
Sometime this morning the much vaunted Facebook platform fell flat on its, er, face. It began with error messages warning of site maintenance but eventually devolved into the server being unreachable altogether. There was no advance warning and, even after several hours, there's no official word on what happened or when we can expect it to be fixed. This is simply unacceptable for a platform with several million users around the world.
It would appear that, in its quest for world domination, Facebook forgot about architecting for reliability and high-availability. Maybe they should start looking into a more fault-tolerent system than whatever they have now ;-/
In the mean-time, there's a hilarious parody of Facebook for you to watch.
It seems to have come back online around 9am PST, although it's still a tad wobbly. I'm expecting an explanation of what happened.
It would appear that, in its quest for world domination, Facebook forgot about architecting for reliability and high-availability. Maybe they should start looking into a more fault-tolerent system than whatever they have now ;-/
In the mean-time, there's a hilarious parody of Facebook for you to watch.
It seems to have come back online around 9am PST, although it's still a tad wobbly. I'm expecting an explanation of what happened.