[outages] Youtube Outage

[Corey Quinn]

Google Front End.

It’s also the “GFE” in the recent NSA slide that’s been bandied about, which is what initially shined some light onto the topic.

To my understanding it’s a google-specific webserver implementation that does “google magic” to speak to various services on the backend. 

http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ws-gfe/all/all shows a bit about it, but the term is apparently vanishingly hard to google for.

— Corey

On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Alex Buie <alex.buie at frozenfeline.net> wrote:

> Back here in SF.
> 
> GFE?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Corey Quinn <corey at sequestered.net> wrote:
> Was down, now seeing it back again in Portland, OR.
> 
> Looks like it was a GFE issue, at a guess.
> 
> Regards,
> Corey Quinn
> 
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