Facebook was down and there's not much to joke about
You’ve probably noticed that two days ago Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp went down. Your experience may have been just mildly annoying if you use Facebook just to procrastinate. But for many others, this was a serious issue. In this post, I want to explain to you how it happened, why it may have happened, and why this is important. Let’s start with how the entire Facebook infrastructure went down. The internet is made of a bunch of connected computers (it’s a “net”)....