The Dangers of Building on the Facebook Platform

The Facebook platform is great. Great, that is, except when a bug on Facebook’s end renders your application useless. People expecting to see growth like iLike were sorely disappointed if they were unlucky enough to run into a series of timeout bugs that have struck Facebook in recent days. According to Facebook these problems are all fixed, but for some, it might be too little, too late.

From the user’s perspective these timeouts look like problems with the application, even though they happened for no other reason than the application was hosted on a machine with a certain IP address.

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