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Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, 2010 @04:15AM from the you-like-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."

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not very technical by datapharmer · 2010-09-25 03:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

The technical details are that I have an incompatible browser? Really Slashdot? Did you even check the links? of course not...

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Twitter... by PmanAce · 2010-09-25 04:34 · Score: 4, Interesting

I wonder if Twitter had a noticable increase in usage during the Facebook outage, or other social portals?

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Re:Link to Facebook Blog Post by Charliemopps · 2010-09-25 06:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

Wow, I'm impressed by the detail they provided. More companies should handle outages like this. Makes them look like they know what they're doing, they figured it out, and it wont happen again. Instead of the typical stance of pretending it never happened.