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Phil Coughlin,
On June 8, an internet
blackout was precipitated by one customer updating their
settings through a “valid
configuration change”. With speed, 85% of the network
of the tech infrastructure company Fastly began returning
errors. A global outage ensued. “The downed sites,” according
to Brian Barrett of
Wired, “shared no obvious theme
or geography; the outages were global, and they hit
everything from Reddit to Spotify to
The New York
Times.”
Nick Rockwell, the Senior Vice President
of engineering and infrastructure at the company, outlined
the incident in a blog post. “We experienced a global
outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on