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If only IRC would have been built with multi-server setups in mind, that forward messages between servers, and continues to work if a single - or even a set - o
by littlecranky67 5y ago
If only IRC would have been built with multi-server setups in mind, that forward messages between servers, and continues to work if a single - or even a set - of servers would go down, just resulting in a netsplit...Oh wait, it was!
My bet is, FB will reach out to others in FAMANG, and an interest group will form maintaining such an emergency infrastructure comm network. Basically a network for network engineers. Because media (and shareholders) will soon ask Microsoft and Google what their plans for such situations are. I'm very glad FB is not in the cloud business...
- rrix2 5y ago> If only IRC would have been built with multi-server setups in mind, that forward messages between servers, and continues to work if a single - or even a set - of servers would go down, just resulting in a netsplit...Oh wait, it was! yeah if only Facebook's production engineering team had hired a team of full time IRCops for their emergency fallback network...
- littlecranky67 5y agoConsidering how much IRCops were paid back in the day (mostly zero as they were volunteers) and what a single senior engineer at FB makes, I'm sure you will find 3-4 people spread amongst the world willing to share this 250k+ salary amongst them.
- ceva 5y agoThat is called outbound network :)