The Router Change That Deleted Facebook
Meta's 2021 outage was a masterclass in how one backbone mistake can take DNS, tooling, and recovery down with it.
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When the Safety Net Eats the Trapeze Artist
The Facebook outage of October 2021 wasn't about BGP. It was about what happens when your safety mechanisms assume partial failure — and you get total failure.