As many of you should know by now, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram servers were down late last night in Malaysia but it seemed that the whole world experienced it together. Anyway, all the servers are back online and Facebook just published an apology and update of what happened.
In the FB Engineering post, they discovered that the configuration changes made in the backbone router's were the main reason for the network disruption. For your information, backbone routers are used to coordinate network traffic between Facebook's data centres around the world. So with that, there was a chain effect globally for up to approximately 6 hours.
So yes, it was all because of a "faulty configuration change" at Facebook's end. Oh well, at least they own up and apologize for the cause. In addition, the company also has no evidence that any user data got compromised during the outage.
That's all, folks. Thankfully, it happened late last night and I believe most of us had a good sleep instead of scrolling through our social media pages before sleeping (which isn't helpful). Stay tuned for trending tech news at TechNave.com.
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