Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all down
www.theverge.com
Meta’s network is down — except for WhatsApp.

The Meta owned platforms are down, forcing some users to log out. Some dispaly error messages.

    • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      They screwed around with a critical service that is necessary for every single one of their sites?

      Why is it such an enormous monolith anyway

      • amiganEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        Companies make configuration changes. Mistakes happen. Sometimes they cascade. In this case, it seems like a simple syntax error or similar cascaded. I’ve seen far, far stupider causes of outages in my career, like idiots running tests against the prod DB and forgetting that the test does DROP SCHEMA public; before it runs.