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Interesting, looking at the history it appears to be a spotty last few months. "Major" outages every two weeks or so. I wonder what brings instability into such
by c0balt 3y ago
Interesting, looking at the history it appears to be a spotty last few months. "Major" outages every two weeks or so. I wonder what brings instability into such a mature product.
- leesalminen 3y agodowndetector.com is also showing a spike of users reporting issues with Instagram around the same time. Assuming both products are hosted with the same infra, perhaps the issue is up-the-chain and not related to any changes in the product per se.
- capableweb 3y agoMeta would be real stupid to host something as vital (in many parts of the world, sadly) as Whatsapp on the same infra as Instagram.
- Sterm 3y agoThe people who wrote it left and the ones who stayed don't know how the system works.
- brasic 3y agoPre-acquisition WhatsApp was built using Erlang and had an impressively large user-to-server ratio IIRC. I expect that since then things have mostly been rebuilt to use existing meta shared infrastructure which might not be as stable or efficient.