Re:WhatsApp Is Down
by c0balt on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:16PM
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Interesting, looking at the history it appears to be a spotty last few months. "Major" outages every two weeks or so. I wonder what brings instability into such a mature product.
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The people who wrote it left and the ones who stayed don't know how the system works.
Re:WhatsApp Is Down
by leesalminen on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:39PM
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downdetector.com is also showing a spike of users reporting issues with Instagram around the same time. Assuming both products are hosted with the same infra, perhaps the issue is up-the-chain and not related to any changes in the product per se.
Re:WhatsApp Is Down
by capableweb on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:40PM
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Meta would be real stupid to host something as vital (in many parts of the world, sadly) as Whatsapp on the same infra as Instagram.
Pre-acquisition WhatsApp was built using Erlang and had an impressively large user-to-server ratio IIRC. I expect that since then things have mostly been rebuilt to use existing meta shared infrastructure which might not be as stable or efficient.