In case you hadn’t noticed – Facebook was hit by a vast service outage two weeks ago. Why might such an outage become more likely in the future, and what should businesses do to mitigate the risk? Brian Coombs explains.
To paraphrase a certain movie’s tagline, you don’t get to 3.5 billion users without suffering a few outages.
For nearly six hours, the Facebook family, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus VR, plus any apps requiring login via Facebook API, was hit by a massive outage, forcing its users to presumably read a book or watch TV without any handheld distractions.
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