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Devs Like Us Episode #29 | Is Facebook Down?

On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours. The outage also prevented anyone trying to use "Log in with Facebook" from accessing third-party sites. On This Episode The Devs Like Us Podcast discusses the outages and share their opinions on being on call and troubleshooting production issues


⌚ Timestamps:

0:00:00 Introduction

0:00:40 Cast Round Robin (What's Going on)

0:05:00 Why Facebook is never down.

0:00:40 Cast Round Robin (What's Going on)

0:05:20 Should You Use OAuth2 ?


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