I mean... this is very much not nice to the people on the ground, but let's face it, this is not healthcare or utilities or food production. Even if whole Meta burns itself to the ground I don't see too many people shedding tears for it 🤷♂️
Actually, WhatsApp is considered a utility in many parts of the world! The 2021 outage - when all Facebook services went down - it caused issues in the developing world: https://news.trust.org/item/20211005204816-qzjft/
So it does have impact: daily, about 50% of humanity uses one of Meta's services, so outages will be varying level of inconvenience and frustration.
There's a reason their core services rarely have SEV0s, and they historically invested so much in reliablity.
I mean... this is very much not nice to the people on the ground, but let's face it, this is not healthcare or utilities or food production. Even if whole Meta burns itself to the ground I don't see too many people shedding tears for it 🤷♂️
Actually, WhatsApp is considered a utility in many parts of the world! The 2021 outage - when all Facebook services went down - it caused issues in the developing world: https://news.trust.org/item/20211005204816-qzjft/
So it does have impact: daily, about 50% of humanity uses one of Meta's services, so outages will be varying level of inconvenience and frustration.
There's a reason their core services rarely have SEV0s, and they historically invested so much in reliablity.
Good point! WhatsApp team was always famous for being tiny for their impact, wishing their boat the best of luck in the storm!