So I hardly need to expand on the coverage that has blanketed the media over the last week, but I want to include a post just for the sake of posterity, so if I'm ever searching my database for Facebook stories, this one will surface. In a nutshell: amid revelations from a whistleblower that Facebook (the company) chose profits over safety (again), there was an hour-long outage of all three of their major services. The main lesson? In my view, the fact that a single failure can take down such a large swath of internet services shows the danger of centralization. So does putting the control of all that into the hands of just a few people.
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