The Bug that Broke Reddit for 314 Minutes
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In this video, we delve into one of the major outages that hit Reddit and how the Software Engineers were able to navigate through it. March 14th 2023, also known as the "Pi-Day Outage" was a series of events that put Reddit offline for 314 minutes. Software Engineers were on full alert for over 5 hours. 🌎
This deep dive into the infamous Pi-Day Outage shows how the software engineers at Reddit triggered this outage and the steps they took in order to resolve it. As well as dive into different software engineering concepts so that you can understand the pivotal moment that Reddit went dark. 👩💻
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_broke_reddit_the_piday_outage/
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0:00 Intro
0:37 Before the Chaos
2:17 Reddit's Infrastructure (Kubernetes)
3:23 The Moment of Disaster
5:06 The First 30 Minutes
6:00 An Interesting Discovery (1 Hour)
7:21 The Network Interface (Calico)
8:43 Emergency Backup (2 Hours)
10:19 The 2 Vital Teams
11:05 The Come Up
11:31 What Happened? (The Aftermath)
13:34 What We Can Learn From Reddit's Outage
14:30 Outro (SUBSCRIBE)
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Chapters (13)
Intro
0:37
Before the Chaos
2:17
Reddit's Infrastructure (Kubernetes)
3:23
The Moment of Disaster
5:06
The First 30 Minutes
6:00
An Interesting Discovery (1 Hour)
7:21
The Network Interface (Calico)
8:43
Emergency Backup (2 Hours)
10:19
The 2 Vital Teams
11:05
The Come Up
11:31
What Happened? (The Aftermath)
13:34
What We Can Learn From Reddit's Outage
14:30
Outro (SUBSCRIBE)
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