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The Facebook Outage — What BGP and DNS Taught Everyone This Week
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp vanished for six hours this week after a BGP misstep took out their DNS. What the outage teaches every team about resilience.
The Fastly Outage — What Tuesday's Hour of Broken Internet Says About Third-Party Risk
Fastly's June 8 outage took down Amazon, Reddit and gov.uk for nearly an hour. What one config change teaches about CDN blast radius and third-party risk.
The OVHcloud Strasbourg Fire: Were Your Backups in the Same Building?
Last week's fire destroyed a data centre in Strasbourg and took backups with it. How to check where your copies really live, and how fast you could restore.
SolarWinds Orion: When the Monitoring Tool Is the Way In
A trojanized Orion update reached thousands of networks. What we know so far, and what it means for any tool that holds the keys to your infrastructure.
One Bad Regex: Lessons From the July 2 Cloudflare Outage
A WAF rule with a backtracking regex pushed Cloudflare's edge CPUs to 100% and served 502s worldwide. What the outage teaches every team.
Yesterday's BGP Route Leak: How a Small ISP Rerouted the Internet
A Pennsylvania ISP's route optimizer leaked routes, Verizon propagated them, and traffic for Cloudflare and Amazon went sideways. What BGP teaches us.
Sunday's Google Cloud Outage: When Your Provider's Network Has a Bad Afternoon
A Google configuration change on June 2 congested networking across US regions for hours. What it teaches about shared fate, alert paths and outside-in checks.
GitHub's Day-Long Outage: Choosing Consistency Over Availability
GitHub spent about a day degraded this weekend and chose data integrity over a fast recovery. What that trade-off means, and what to check in your own pipeline.
WannaCry: The Patch Existed for Two Months. Why Wasn't It Installed?
WannaCry is spreading through networks using a flaw Microsoft patched in March. What the worm teaches about patch cadence, EOL systems and tested backups.
The S3 Outage: Why Your Status Page Can't Live on Your Own Infrastructure
Amazon's four-hour S3 outage broke a large part of the web, and AWS's own dashboard couldn't turn red. Why status pages need independent infrastructure.
Cloudbleed: What a Leaking CDN Teaches About Shared Infrastructure
Cloudflare's edge leaked memory from unrelated sites into served pages for months. What Cloudbleed teaches about shared infrastructure and secrets.
The GitLab.com Database Incident: A Backup You Haven't Restored Is Just a Hope
Last week GitLab.com lost hours of production data and found its backups weren't working. What happened, and how to check your own before you need them.
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