Facebook costliest outage caused $160 million loss: NetBlocks
Facebook insists that a configuration change, most likely done by an engineer, broke the connection on the backbone routers which connect the data centers to the internet
It wasn’t the small matter of a social networking website going offline for a short period. When Facebook went offline globally for almost 6 hours in the early hours of October 5, it resulted in a mad scramble to find a fix and the cause of the outage. The enormity of the problem was compounded by the fact that the most popular messaging app in the world, WhatsApp, along with Instagram …