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The Facebook Outage, Explained (10/4/21) | Outage Deep Dive

The Facebook Outage, Explained (10/4/21) | Outage Deep Dive

FromThe Internet Report


The Facebook Outage, Explained (10/4/21) | Outage Deep Dive

FromThe Internet Report

ratings:
Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Oct 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why.
00:15 Headlines: Today we’re going to do a thorough analysis of the major Facebook outage that took place yesterday, Monday, October 4. I’m joined by ​​Gustavo Ramos, ThousandEyes’ in-house expert on Network Engineering.
ThousandEyes Blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/facebook-outage-analysis
Analysis from Facebook: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/
1:17 Under the Hood: We'll walk through the sequence of events that led to this outage, understand what went wrong (and what actions may have made the situation worse), and what lessons we can all learn from this outage.
25:40 Outro: We've been on a bit of a break for the past several months as things were relatively quiet on the Internet front and for the foreseeable future we'll be a bit reactive in our episodes, when something major happens trust we'll be here. Questions? Feedback? Have an idea for a guest? Send us an email at internetreport@thousandeyes.com
Released:
Oct 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Catch our Outage Deep Dive series for special coverage of Internet outages. We go under the hood to determine what happened, covering key lessons and ways IT teams can minimize downtime in similar situations. Also tune in every other week for the Pulse Update podcast series to hear from the Internet experts at ThousandEyes as they share the latest data on ISP outages, public cloud provider network outages, collaboration app network outages, and more. Then, the hosts dig into some of the most interesting outage events from the last few weeks.