Many of us who read Hacker News are employed in the technology industry and have a particular interest in reliability and availability of computer systems. It'

Many of us who read Hacker News are employed in the technology industry and have a particular interest in reliability and availability of computer systems. It's not interesting that people can't post their personality quizzes, but it is very interesting that Facebook had a production outage, particularly if we are able to learn something from the failure that we can apply to future scenarios we may encounter.