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Facebook names their biggest outages and turns them into parts of the company mythology. Part of that is cool naming.
by yaacov 5y ago
Facebook names their biggest outages and turns them into parts of the company mythology. Part of that is cool naming.
- vitus 5y agoIt's not just Facebook. It's easier in a conversation to refer to an outage that was caused by a system called Maya by a descriptive canonical name like "Mayan Apocalypse", than to refer to it as 14351. As companies grow and accumulate more interesting outages, it becomes harder to keep all these magic numbers in your mental cache.
- busterarm 5y agoIn this case the company being referred to IS Facebook though.
- rachelbythebay 5y agohttps://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/news/companies/facebook-outage-911/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/news/companies/facebook-out... I always wanted to apologize to Sgt. Brink for having to take my calls that day.