What Caused the Facebook Outage?
The Facebook outage was caused by configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers.
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From what I gathered, Facebook's servers went kaboom due to some router mishap鈥攊t wasn't hackers or aliens this time!
Honestly, a simple goof-up in the network settings caused the whole shebang. Oopsies happen, even to the big guys!
A massive configuration error messed up Facebook's servers, leaving us all to twiddle our thumbs and talk to real humans for a bit.
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