Facebook Vanishes From the Internet for Six Hours | The DevOps Postmortem

During routine maintenance, a command intended to assess backbone capacity inadvertently took down all of Facebook's backbone connections. A protective audit bug failed to stop it, Facebook withdrew its BGP routes, and Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and internal tools became globally unreachable for roughly six hours. 📚 Sources: • Update about the October 4th outage — https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04... • More details about the October 4 outage — https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05... 🔥 The DevOps Postmortem — real incidents, real lessons. Subscribe so you don't repeat them. #DevOps #SRE #Postmortem #CloudComputing #Kubernetes #IncidentResponse