Tumblr Staff: Downtime
I am in the IT industry, and we experience downtimes, but every company communicates them differently. I’ve always had the view that transparency is better.
Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online.
While you…
Source: staff