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Last Thursday, office productivity soared when popular online forum Reddit went down for over an hour. Now the site has explained why. Reddit uses a server synchronisation system called ZooKeeper, but turned this off on August 11 so that it could roll out a new infrastructure build with its cloud providers. However, in the …

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