Imagine if FB owned AWS (or something with a similar footprint) right now.
“The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear war” has always been a myth, but it’s wronger than ever after decades of quiet centralization.
A really bad takeaway from this would be “look how badly FB was engineered”. They no doubt made some (serious) errors, but they’re about as technically good as anyone is at their scale.
I get that you don’t like Facebook. Their product (when you can get to it) is toxic. But that’s not a valid technical critique of their reliability engineering. They had bad failures today, but it remains to be seen exactly what went wrong and what can be learned from it.
I don’t feel sorry for Facebook, the company with the toxic, exploitative social media platform. (And I look forward to tomorrow’s whistleblower hearing).
But that’s entirely separate from whether their infrastructure was well engineered.
But that’s entirely separate from whether their infrastructure was well engineered.
I really hope that tomorrow’s hearing stays focused on FB’s business practices (for which they have much to answer), and also that there are future public inquiries into the failure here (from which there’s also much to learn)
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