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It's a no apologies messages: "We failed, our processes failed, our recovery process only partially worked, we celebrate failure. Our investors were not happy,
by rvnx 5y ago
It's a no apologies messages:
"We failed, our processes failed, our recovery process only partially worked, we celebrate failure. Our investors were not happy, our users were not happy, some people probably ended in physically dangerous situations due to WhatsApp being unavailable but it's ok. We believe a tradeoff like this is worth it."
- Your engineering team.
- rPlayer6554 5y agoLiterally the first line of their first article.[0] This article is just a technical explanation. [0] https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/ https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/out...
- jffry 5y agoYesterday's blog post (discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28754824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28754824) was a direct apology. Should that be repeated in a somewhat more technical discussion of why it happened?
- kzrdude 5y agoWe (the users) are the product anyway, they can only apologize to themselves for missing out on making money yesterday.