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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.
The Dyn Attack: DNS Is the Single Point of Failure Everyone Forgets
Last Friday a botnet of cameras and DVRs knocked out Dyn's DNS, and Twitter, Reddit and Spotify with it. Lessons on DNS redundancy, TTLs and monitoring.
Delta and Southwest: When the Backup Data Center Isn't a Backup
Two airlines, two data center failures, thousands of cancelled flights in a month. What they suggest about failover plans that exist mostly on paper.
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