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Detailed analysis on the facebook outage

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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How Does a Data Centre Locate the Nearest Facility?

When you open up one of our abs and load up your feed or messages, the abs request for data travels from your device to th nearest facility. So how does it find the nearest facility? This wergodianus comes into the question i believe, where it will serve you an ip address that is closest to you. Ande, i don't know much about this, of the technicality of this, but there must be some sortof er, a go location between the source, ipiares that is requesting this dianous entry. Does it mean? Is this how exactly it works? I'm not sure. Anothe another good research. And if anyone knows,

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