Service disrupted : FB Graph API down

Shared by Ksso on June 06, 2011 in News

Since about  12am CET, the FB Graph API which we rely on to authenticate Diveboard's users is massively disrupted as shown in the graph below. The graph is updated on Facebook Developer's blog page.



As a consequence almost no-one can login at the moment, until the API gets back to normal. I say almost no-one since there's a secret ugly page on diveboard to try out the login/password feature, and some users are actually using it. It's on occasions like this that we're happy to have cut the dependency with Facebook on that key element.

UPDATE  1pm: After one hour downtime, API is back up at 1pm CET (lunch break over ?) - API is still VERY SLOW - fingers crossed !

UPDATE 2pm: FB API is feeling better. Meanwhile we identified and removed a dependency on the Graph API where we were checking for user's permissions a bit too often. They are now being cached between logins. This will prevent any server-side call on the API while you are logged and not using it. Also we are catching better the API timeouts and responding accordingly.

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