Detailed analysis on the facebook outage

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In this episode, I go through the Facebook detailed article regarding their October 4th, 2021 outage and discuss it in length. enjoy Facebook blog: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ 0:00 Introduction on Facebook Networking Architecture 12:00 The Cause of the Outage 17:00 What’s DNS 23:00 DNS Servers disabled BGP ads 27:00 Could the outage have been prevented? 32:00 Why did it take so long? 38:00 Why you can’t just flip everything on 41:30 Summary 🧑‍🏫 Courses I Teach https://database.husseinnasser.com https://nginx.husseinnasser.com https://python.husseinnasser.com Become a Member on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg/join 🔥 Members Only Content https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMO_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg Support my work on PayPal https://bit.ly/33ENps4 🏭 Backend Engineering Videos in Order https://backend.husseinnasser.com 💾 Database Engineering Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXjD0HOzN7P2tgzu7scWpl2