Fun story. I had a flip phone years ago and you could have multiple recipients to a single text. And if the text was multiple pages, it would split into several texts. And you could resend already sent texts.
So one time I put in my girlfriend’s phone number in all 20 recipient slots. I then filled the text to the max size, though I don’t remember how many it split into. I then resent it over and over. This all took like 2 or 3 minutes.
Her phone was sending notifications over and over for the entire rest of the day. I’d guess at least 8 hours, probably more.
Pouring one out for the SREs at Meta
Someone is having a really bad day today. I wonder if your phone dies when you get a certain number of pages or push notifications
Fun story. I had a flip phone years ago and you could have multiple recipients to a single text. And if the text was multiple pages, it would split into several texts. And you could resend already sent texts.
So one time I put in my girlfriend’s phone number in all 20 recipient slots. I then filled the text to the max size, though I don’t remember how many it split into. I then resent it over and over. This all took like 2 or 3 minutes.
Her phone was sending notifications over and over for the entire rest of the day. I’d guess at least 8 hours, probably more.
What’s a SRE?
Site reliability engineer
Google terminology leaking its way into mainstream
Meta has SRE. Not just a Google thing, even if Google invented it.
https://engineering.fb.com/2010/02/08/data-center-engineering/site-reliability-engineering-at-facebook/
Hopefully they won’t need to cut their way into the data center this time.