The datacenter hosting Tumblr’s primary infrastructure just suffered major connectivity issues, leaving the site inaccessible for the last 30 minutes. All access is now restored, and we’re investigating the cause.
Our deepest apologies to anyone affected.
Time to get a backup datacenter, eh?
When I was at Amazon, we would do these crazy fire drills where we would intentionally shut down an entire datacenter, just to see what would happen. With systems as intertwined as ours were, there was no way to perfectly predict what would happen, so we just had to do it. Better it be in a controlled way than it really happening in an emergency.
