Facebook explains why its services were down

Facebook head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan has explained why the behemoths services including WhatsApp and Instagram were down on Monday.

Facebook vice president of infrastructure indicated that “configuration changes on the backbone routers that co-ordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”

So what does this mean in simple terms?

So here is what happens with the internet. There is a thing called a BGP, or a Border Gateway Protocol. It is how networks peer with each other and exchange information effectively, fast and seamlessly.

That is what happened to their system, because of a tweak in it. So the services stopped talking to each other.

The head of infrastructure at Facebook also apologised for the outage. In a blog post the executive member at Facebook went to say “no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

So no folks, there was no juju.