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Is this due to their Kafka infrastructure being down? Their tweet last night alluded to it.

• eden_hazard 7y ago
  There are some rumors that it's leap year related. Apparently, it happened 4 years back too
• dmead 7y ago
  link to the tweet?
  • mulcahey 7y ago
    > The outage was not caused by a failure to code for the leap year. We had instability in a part of our infrastructure that allows our systems to communicate with each other. https://twitter.com/askrobinhood/status/1234861941413351434?s=21 https://twitter.com/askrobinhood/status/1234861941413351434?... Sounds like Kafka / message bus to me
    • yushuf 7y ago
      There Kafka cluster is actually managed by Confluent. I wonder if that has anything to do with the persistent outage
    • conduit242 7y ago
      Could easily be service discovery too, like Zookeeper
• ch 7y ago
  Probably a JVM GC pause.