In early October, Facebook suffered a global outage that affected all of the company's social networks. Former Internet Advisor to the President Herman Klimenko told Sekret Firmy that this failure is proof of the unreliability of too large systems. According to the expert, in the near future laws on the division of such IT giants will appear in the world.
According to Klimenko, laws to regulate ecosystems will be adopted in Russia as well. “The prospect of separating Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is clear. It will be clearly stipulated that some systems cannot be parts of ecosystems, but must be independent, since this is a critical infrastructure, “he told Secret.
First of all, the laws on independence from other systems will affect companies providing hosting services and DNS servers that are responsible for storing the IP addresses of sites, the expert said. They should become separate organizations, because the server storage service should not depend on the social media company – they are completely different activities.
When one IT giant tries to control all the processes, the slightest failure is enough for a cascading effect to appear and the system collapses. If Facebook services used external servers and were located on different hosting, the domino effect would not have happened if even a hundred servers fell.
“The problem is not that Facebook is unreliable, all sites crash periodically. Centralization is too high. Previously, monopolization led to higher prices, but now it leads to a drop in the reliability of the system. The entire Internet is built on the decentralization of traffic, ”explained Klimenko. He stressed that other large corporations are trying to centralize their systems. This can lead to the risk of a second “digital apocalypse”, when a small malfunction affects the performance of the entire corporation.
After a global outage in online services, the American stock market plummeted. In just one night, technology companies FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) lost $ 243 billion in capitalization.
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