{"id":14309,"date":"2010-10-06T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=14309"},"modified":"2010-10-06T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:46:03","slug":"foursquare-explained-the-11-hours-downtime-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/foursquare-explained-the-11-hours-downtime-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Foursquare Explained the 11 hours Downtime Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have tried to check in yesterday, you might run out of luck as <a href=\"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/foursquare-server-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foursquare was down for 11 hours<\/a>. To many, it was way too long for a downtime. Foursquare wrote a blog post to explain what happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/foursquare_down.jpg?resize=540%2C299\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to Foursquare, the database Shards did not perform as what they should. Instead of spreading the database across the Shards, it consolidated at only one.<\/p>\n<p>The team tried various ways to rectified the problem but it became worst when they tried to add another Shard to the system. Due to unknown cause, the site went down.<\/p>\n<p>The next (many) hours, the team tried their best to make the site up.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here to Read the Full Story<\/p>\n<p>Some new changes were made by Foursquare after this incident.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Downtime and \u2018we\u2019re back up\u2019 messages will be tweeted by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/4sqsupport\" target=\"_blank\">@4sqsupport<\/a> (our support account) and retweeted by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/foursquare\" target=\"_blank\">@foursquare<\/a><\/li>\n<li>During these outages, regular updates (at least hourly) will be tweeted from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/4sqsupport\" target=\"_blank\">@4sqsupport<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve created a new status blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/status.foursquare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">status.foursquare.com<\/a>, which will have the latest updates.<\/li>\n<li>A more useful error page; instead of having a static graphic saying  we\u2019re upgrading our servers (which was not completely accurate), we\u2019ll  have a more descriptive status update. Of course we hope not to see the  pouty princess in the future\u2026<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully, the team can come up with backup plans in case such things happen again.<\/p>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have tried to check in yesterday, you might run out of luck as Foursquare was down for 11 hours. To many, it was way too long for a downtime. 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