THE FACEBOOK CRASH: WHAT WENT WRONG? WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT.
Menlo Park, home to The Facebook corporate headquarters in California. Facebook recently had a terrible outage that lasted hours and in that time founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth dropped $6bn, according to Bloomberg. Facebook, the parent company that owns and runs WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus; through it; saw a tumultuous disruption of all its services. WAS IT A HACK I bet you saw that logo up top, 1 hacker way . Your guess is as good as mine. But.... The Answer is No. It wasn't a hack. So what really happened? In an official statement by Facebook Inc . on Tuesday, they confirmed that the cause of the outage was a change in the configuration of its backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between the company’s data centres, which had a cascading effect, bringing all Facebook services to a halt. Confused? Don't be. It was simply an upgrade to its routers (network) tha...