In a world that operates at “hyperscale,” the potential for hyperscale-sized problems is also very real. The measure of a good provider—and a well-engineered system—is how well they handle these anomalous conditions and minimize disruption.

During recent weeks, some of these hyperscale-sized outages hit, including data center-focused disruptions that impacted companies like Square, Oracle OCI, NetSuite, and Microsoft Azure. 

Tune into this Pulse Update episode to go under the hood of these outages and discover how the companies responded—and important lessons learned.

For more insights, check out these links:

- The Internet Report: Pulse Update Blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-pulse-update-square-down?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=internetreportpulseep19

- Explore the Square outage in the ThousandEyes platform (NO LOGIN REQUIRED): 
https://akinmwcoyjwhlwmhnykikzqkxcltwasv.share.thousandeyes.com


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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:59 The Download
04:33 By the Numbers
09:02 Square Outage
23:08 Oracle OCI, NetSuite, and Microsoft Azure Outages
32:19 Get in Touch

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