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The Meta owned platforms are down, forcing some users to log out. Some dispaly error messages.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

So, anyone wanna take a guess at what it is this time?

My money is on a self-signed SSL certificate used in the back end somewhere expired. Some SAML setup or something that everyone forgot about.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna guess it's related to leap day. Someone rolled there own time date module and a weekly cron job.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I'll wager BGP. Or DNS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They screwed around with a critical service that is necessary for every single one of their sites?

Why is it such an enormous monolith anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Companies make configuration changes. Mistakes happen. Sometimes they cascade. In this case, it seems like a simple syntax error or similar cascaded. I've seen far, far stupider causes of outages in my career, like idiots running tests against the prod DB and forgetting that the test does DROP SCHEMA public; before it runs.