What Happened With Facebook's Outage? When Will It Happen Again?

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What Happened With Facebook's Outage?</strong><br /> <strong>When Will It Happen Again?</strong></p> <p>Facebook had a huge outage all of its properties. So why did it happen? How did it happen? And what's going to happen in the future? The frankly, some of this technology just isn't that stable. And I'm going to explain why right now!</p> <p>[Automated transcript follows]</p> <p>[00:00:20] I've already talked about it a little bit this morning on the show, but Facebook was. Facebook was down a lot. Facebook too was down a long time. And Mr. Zuckerberg has now lost about $7 billion because of how long it was down. And Craig Peterson joins us now to talk a little bit about exactly what happened, why it matters, what it means and so much more.</p> <p>[00:00:39] Craig, how are you this morning?</p> <p>[00:00:41] Hey, good morning. Doing well.</p> <p>[00:00:42] Thanks. Good to have you as always. So tell me first. What actually happened yesterday. I read that the explanation from Facebook seems like not a big deal as just a configuration problem, a little unexpected issue. They're not sure exactly what happened or looking into it.</p> <p>[00:00:57] It's not a big deal though. Continue on with your day. What's the reality, what actually happened.</p> <p>[00:01:01] Yeah, nothing to see here. You look at the number of companies and the companies Facebook has bought over the years, basically since 2005, they've spent $410 billion on all these companies named some names.</p> <p>[00:01:17] You might actually recognize you remember Friendster?</p> <p>[00:01:20] I do remember friends. Yes. That was a little, that's a little bit back there, but yeah.</p> <p>[00:01:25] That was about 10 years ago, they paid $40 million for that. But of course, Facebook has moved on from that and owned all kinds of companies. Right now.</p> <p>[00:01:35] It's got Instagram, WhatsApp, by the way they paid 19 billion is what it's wiping sorts out Oculus live rail and many</p> <p>[00:01:45] others basically.