How Facebook SDK halts hundreds of iOS app on Friday 10, 2020

How Facebook SDK halts hundreds of iOS app on Friday 10, 2020

Its Friday — The Party Night, Sometime around 4:00PM IST on July 10th, popular iOS apps from major companies like Tokopedia, OLX, DoorDash, Spotify, TikTok, and Venmo suddenly starting crashing. The culprit didn’t remain a mystery for long.

IRONY!! Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and FB’s Messenger are working.

Answer is Facebook and Facebook messenger are React native apps and don’t use this SDK.

Every developer started looking into FB SDK for the first time :P

Some start sharing firebase metrics ;)

Few start twitting over twitter :)

and its 6:20PM IST Now, and finally everything start working again.

We can start our party now !!!

“From what I’ve seen, developers are really frustrated about this, especially because the engineers who have to deal with these types of problems are usually not the ones who have decided to add such an SDK to the app they work on,”