[kictanet] Facebook, Whatsapp Instagram Down?

Tue Oct 5 09:07:14 EAT 2021

How a Cache Stampede Caused One of Facebook’s Biggest Outages
https://betterprogramming.pub/how-a-cache-stampede-caused-one-of-facebooks-biggest-outages-dbb964ffc8ed

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 9:02 AM Ali Hussein via KICTANet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Someone asked me last night what was the impact on African businesses
> during the downtime.
>
> It would be great to do a quick study on this. Maybe the Facebook team can
> assist us with this. One thing for me is clear and w shouldn't lose sight
> of this - Any system in the world can have downtime. Big Tech is not an
> exception. I'm keen for us to discuss mitigating these systemic risks.
>
> Regards
>
> *Ali Hussein*
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> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:34 AM Barrack Otieno via KICTANet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Could be domain name system related. Twitter has been here before.
>> Happens to the best of Infrastructure and that is why we need  critical
>> infrastructure protection laws in place in this day and age.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, 4:50 am Ronald Ojino via KICTANet, <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Of great interest would be to know the cause of the outage.
>>> I Hope it wasn't as a result of a security breach.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:02 AM Mutindi Muema via KICTANet <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The memes are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 20:21 Egline Jeptoo via KICTANet, <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Twitter usage now must be high to an extend Facebook is acknowledging
>>>>> the outage on Twitter 🙂
>>>>>
>>>>> "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps
>>>>> and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as
>>>>> possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."
>>>>>
>>>>> https://twitter.com/Facebook/status/1445061804636479493?s=19
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 19:26 A Mutheu via KICTANet, <
>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi  Barrack,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess Mark Zuckerberg showing the world who runs the world after
>>>>>> being called out today - smile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WhatsApp, Facebook & Instagram have crashed worldwide.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would be intresting to know the twitter usage spike currently.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stay happy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mutheu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, 7:14 pm Barrack Otieno via KICTANet, <
>>>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good Evening listers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it just on my end?, indeed uptime can only be 99.9%
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>
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