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Netflix: Faulty Hardware Took Us Down

Started by Duncan Riley · 10 months ago

Netflix says a piece of hardware is to blame for its recent shipping outage.
The company’s head of IT operations says a “key faulty hardware component” caused its distribution system to crash two weeks ago today — and to further confound things, he ... Continue reading »

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  • Dave Zatz

    10 months ago

    Interesting that they blame one piece of hardware, when it looks like all Netflix's distribution centers were out of commission for a time. Unless they took the others offline until they identified the problem, or they have multiple instances of that one piece of hardware. Still smells like a software issue...
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  • Tom

    10 months ago

    Awful reporting. Nowhere did they say that the system crashed. What they said was that a database corruption issue was detected. Therefore, the outage was intentional -- they had to shut down the system, migrate a known-good snapshot to new hardware, and replay the logs. This takes a heck of a lot of time because you're basically provisioning your IT infrastructure from scratch.
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