The Bug that Broke Reddit for 314 Minutes

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. 👩‍💻

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TIMESTAMPS
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)

[CodingWithLewis]

A lot has happened 11 days later...

Should I make a video about it? 🤔

[QuantumPlatypus]

The exact 314 minutes on pi day makes me question life.

[enriquegabriel]

As a Network Engineer with zero Kubernetes background, I was surprised when you mentioned the route Reflectors issue. That's something very important and never overlooked among Network Engineers.

[CattopyTheWeb]

Very interesting video. This just shows that you should do a lot of testing before deploying to production.

[CodingWithLewis]

We spent A LOT of time in this video. Hope you enjoy the change in pace :)

[CodeWithMasood]

Hey Lewis, the combination of editing and information makes your videos so much entertaining and helpful!

[ryanisthewind]

The way you explained Kubernetes was perfect!

[weiSane]

Bro this new video style is super cool . You leveling up every time

[JustPyroYT]

Amazing Video!
Very interesting, easy to understand and not boring! :)

[michaellerch]

Ah, the ol' "Well it worked on my machine" routine. I get testing EXACTLY what's in production of that size and network is hard.... seems like there was a lot going against them, but I think something would have tripped or failed during a test that was nearly identical on a smaller scale.

[ghaithzakk]

That's an excellent explaination Lewis :D . I think you should add tags to your videos, you are Super Underrated!

[thevishvammoliya]

When you started off with the Date, I thought It was another code report from fireship 😂, I rechecked the channel to verify

[lgustavorcaldas]

This new style of editing was amazing if the theme!

[anfelrosa]

Thank you for such well put and informative video !

[racapadexxa_]

Reddit didn't wanted me to have my cake day so bad it crashed

[pratikrajsah]

Loved the way you explained it so simply, thanks for making me fell more in love with Full Stack Development and stuffs.

[pingusurmars]

Amazing vid man !
keep up the good work 👋👋

[HarryDaDevSecond]

My fav video from you so far! Good one Lewis ;)

[theashkone]

Omg i was feeling the stress and shitty feeling of that moment when your online complex service faces a problem, i always got the panic of updating servers and services, cuz an small mismatch on new versions could smoke your ass easily

[JustPyroYT]

0:15 Coincidence? I think not.
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