On March 5, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been left massively, leaving hundreds of thousands of users without access to these platforms for several hours.
Once it starts, users all over the world will not be able to access their accounts, creating uncertainty and frustration. I had a bit of paranoia about the potential risk of being hacked. But it took a few minutes to realize the mistake in mass and give rise to years. zombie memes.
It was a cool moment of laughter where X (formerly Twitter) gave you a glimpse of how funny it was in our good times. But this event, which is not the first time it has happened, generated a wave of questions, including: why is Facebook missing, or Instagram and WhatsApp also falling?
To answer this question we have two main aspects: shared infrastructure and common property. Here we will respond based on publicly available information and other obvious factors about the Goal.
Why do Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp tend to crash at the same time?
Colleague sites like Infobae We will also raise exactly the same question. Embora em sua approach tenham sought to focus more on past statements and other elements of logic.
However, it is evident that there are three different elements that vary in weight whenever Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram fail to serve you:
• Shared infrastructure: These three platforms, along with others such as Messenger and Oculus, are owned by Meta, formerly known as Facebook. Isso means that all of them share an underlying technological infrastructure, made up of data centers, servers, networks and software.
When there is a problem with this infrastructure, such as a hardware failure or a software error, it can affect all the platforms you use.
In the event of March 5, it is believed that it was due to a software error in the Meta domain management system.
This error theoretically caused the incorrect resolution of the domain names of the platforms, or prevented users from accessing them. No, this still needs to be confirmed.
• Interdependence: In addition to sharing infrastructure, the three platforms also have the same owner: Mark Zuckerberg. This means that decisions made in the Meta can affect all platforms, even if they are not directly related.
For example, if the goal is to decide to do an important update on one of the platforms, it is possible that this update also affects other duas. This is because the platforms are interconnected in several ways.
•Human error: Any collaborator in the IT sector with friends, contacts or informants working within the Meta is relatively aware that the mass of the last March 5 was caused by a human error, arising within the company, which is likely to collapse itself. your internal communications.
It will be interesting if the company opens and finally details precisely what exactly happens.