UII UPDATE 115 | Q4 2021
Intelligence Update
Too big to fail? Facebook’s global outage
The bigger the outage, the greater the need for explanations and, most importantly, for taking steps to avoid a repeat.
By any standards, the outage that affected Facebook on Monday, October 4th, was big. For more than six hours, Facebook and its other businesses, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus VR, disappeared from the internet — not just in a few regions or countries, but globally. So many users and machines kept retrying these websites, it caused a slowdown of the internet and issues with cellular networks.
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