{"id":9882,"date":"2014-01-27T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverlift.com\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:40:40","slug":"lessons-learned-recent-dropbox-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverlift.com\/es\/blog\/lessons-learned-recent-dropbox-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecciones a aprender de la reciente interrupci\u00f3n de Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muy pocos de nosotros en la industria del alojamiento web tendremos la necesidad de escalar al nivel que hacen servicios como Dropbox. Dicho esto, cuando un servicio del tama\u00f1o de Dropbox da un paso en falso que conduce a una interrupci\u00f3n, vale la pena prestar atenci\u00f3n a las causas y al impacto para ver si hay posibles lecciones que aprender.<\/p>\n

El 10 de enero, Dropbox se desconect\u00f3. Los usuarios no pod\u00edan sincronizar sus carpetas y, por lo tanto, no pod\u00edan acceder a sus archivos en muchos dispositivos. El servicio estuvo inactivo durante gran parte del viernes por la noche, y los usuarios tuvieron problemas para acceder a sus archivos durante todo el fin de semana.<\/p>\n

Of course, the media was full of speculation about potential causes for the outage, with many focusing on a possible DDoS attack. On the following Monday, Dropbox released a statement that went into detail about the causes of the outage, which dismissed the idea of an ataque de hackers<\/a> y en su lugar culp\u00f3 a un proceso de actualizaci\u00f3n defectuoso.<\/p>\n

El d\u00eda de la interrupci\u00f3n, Dropbox estaba ejecutando una copia de seguridad programada del sistema operativo. Como puede imaginar, actualizar los miles de servidores que utiliza Dropbox no es una tarea f\u00e1cil. Gran parte del proceso est\u00e1 automatizado con scripts, que pueden haber sido la causa del tiempo de inactividad.<\/p>\n

La lecci\u00f3n clave aqu\u00ed, como detalla el Jefe de Infraestructura en Dropbox, Akhil Gupta, es que si va a realizar una actualizaci\u00f3n, debe estar absolutamente seguro de en qu\u00e9 estado se encuentra el servidor. Para evitar que vuelva a ocurrir el mismo error, Dropbox implement\u00f3 un nivel adicional de comprobaciones, para que el servidor verifique su propio estado antes de ejecutar comandos, en lugar de ejecutar ciegamente las instrucciones entrantes, independientemente de lo que est\u00e9 haciendo cuando las reciba.<\/p>\n

No se menciona en la autopsia del incidente, pero la interrupci\u00f3n probablemente podr\u00eda haberse evitado con pruebas m\u00e1s rigurosas. La interrupci\u00f3n de Dropbox es un recordatorio de lo que puede suceder cuando una empresa est\u00e1 escalando r\u00e1pidamente su infraestructura. La escala se convierte en el objetivo principal, y las pruebas quedan en el camino hasta cierto punto.<\/p>\n

Un enfoque m\u00e1s riguroso para probar y verificar los scripts de automatizaci\u00f3n puede haber detectado el "error sutil" antes de que causara estragos.<\/p>\n

Acerca de Graeme Caldwell: Graeme trabaja como vendedor entrante para InterWorx<\/a>, un panel de control de alojamiento web revolucionario para hosts que necesitan escalabilidad y confiabilidad. Siga a InterWorx en Twitter en @interworx<\/a>, Como ellos en Facebook<\/a> y mira su blog, http:\/\/www.interworx.com\/community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Very few of us in the web hosting industry will ever have the need to scale to the level that services like Dropbox do. 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