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Internet Outages: Why One Small Link Can Break the Whole Chain | Pulse Update
Providing great digital experiences relies on a complex service delivery chain. The past few weeks brought multiple reminders that the root cause of cloud and app disr...
Data Center Disruptions, Square Down, and More News | Pulse Update
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...
Disruptions at Slack and X + Thoughts on “Take Twos” | Pulse Update
An outage occurs, a change is rolled back, and everything stabilizes. But what happens when the change is attempted a second time?These second tries often go much more...
An August Slack Outage and Why Context Matters | Pulse Update
Context matters when working on a distributed web-based application or service where everything is linked and dependent on each part functioning correctly. It’s all to...
SharePoint Outage and Security Certificate Considerations | Pulse Update
In an end-to-end service delivery chain, isolated changes can have broad consequences. This played out recently when an erroneous SSL certificate change at Microsoft a...
Azure Disruption, Meta App Issues, and Navigating Edge Cases | Pulse Update
Let’s face it. Not every contingency can be planned for. Sometimes an outlier scenario pops up and causes an unexpected outage or disruption.Over the past few weeks, m...
A Front Door, But No House: Explaining Application Outages | Pulse Update
The application opens, but users encounter errors when they try to do anything—what gives? It’s the curious case of the disappearing backend. Discover why application ...
Application Outages Up in 2023—What to Know | Pulse Update
Though network outages are still far more common, application outages seem to be increasing in 2023—and having bigger impacts. Tune in to learn more about this trend a...
Is Spring Cleaning Causing an Outage Spike? | Pulse Update
For three consecutive years, there appears to have been a spike in outages and degradations in May. A potential “spring cleaning effect” may explain why. Tune in to le...
How Outages Can Impact Distributed Dev Teams | Pulse Update
Tune in to explore ways that outages can impact distributed software development teams and what companies can learn from recent incidents at GitHub, Google Cloud, and ...
Redundancy in the Cloud Era: Two Case Studies | Pulse Update
When it comes to your technology strategy, it's a good idea to have more than one way to access every resource—just in case. As IT environments have changed, so has th...
The Anatomy of an Outage | Pulse Update
Understanding the unique characteristics of different kinds of Internet outages can help you quickly recognize the type of incident you’re dealing with and take the ri...
Chatting About the ChatGPT Outage and Other Outage News | Pulse Update
This week’s Pulse Update unpacks OpenAI’s ChatGPT outage and discusses why the outage actually represented a pragmatic move on the part of OpenAI. We’ll also discuss g...
Understanding the UK Virgin Media Outages on April 4 | Outage Deep Dive
On April 4, 2023, Virgin Media UK (AS 5089) experienced two outages that impacted the reachability of its network and services to the global Internet. The two outages ...
Exploring Application Errors at Okta, Twitch, Reddit & GitHub | Pulse Update
HTTP 403, 503, and 504 status codes dominated the last few weeks as multiple companies experienced application degradations and outages. These incidents at companies l...
Twitter Performance in the Elon Era, a Ransomware Attack & More Outage News | Pulse Update
It was an eventful fortnight on the Internet as Twitter, Dish Network, Akamai, and Ticketek Australia all experienced outages. Tune into our latest episode for insight...
A Tale of Two Data Center Outages | Pulse Update
In the space of a week, we saw two data center-related incidents lead to long Microsoft and Oracle outages. Join us as we analyze these outages and ways IT teams can m...
A Trio of Similar Incidents: Microsoft, Cloudflare, & Slack Outages | Pulse Update
We discuss insights from a recent trio of similar incidents at Microsoft, Cloudflare, and Slack, along with other outage news, including a Comcast outage that impacted...
The Microsoft Outlook Outage, Explained | Outage Deep Dive
Live from #CiscoLiveEMEA, we discuss the Feb. 7 Microsoft Outlook outage to understand how the event unfolded, why it may have played out the way it did, and what you ...
Lessons From the FAA, Fastly, & Microsoft Outages | Pulse Update
In this episode, we cover the latest internet trends and unpack important takeaways from the recent FAA, Fastly, and Microsoft outages.
Understanding the Microsoft Outage: Why Were Azure, Microsoft Teams, & Outlook Down? | Outage Deep Dive
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Join our co-hosts Angelique Medina, Head of Internet Intellig...
Notes on the Spotify Outage | Pulse Update
This episode covers the latest global network outage numbers and interesting end-of-year trends, how resilient application architectures, clouds and networks are chall...
Twitter in the Elon Era + Microsoft & AWS Outages | Pulse Update
Welcome to the first episode of the Internet Report: Pulse Update, where we cover the latest outage numbers, highlighting a few interesting outages, trends, traits, an...
Unpacking the Dec. 12 Quad9 BGP Route Leak | Outage Deep Dive
On December 12, 2022, an ISP in the Democratic Republic of Congo leaked a route belonging to the Quad9 DNS service, causing some traffic, including Verizon US customer...
An Eventful End to October for WhatsApp, Zscaler, Salesforce, and Facebook | Outage Deep Dive
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. In this episode, we unpack four notable outages that impacted...
Unpacking the March 28th Twitter Outage | Outage Deep Dive
We're back! 00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this episode, our newest host,...
Unpacking the December AWS Outages (December 7, 10, & 15, 2021) | Outage Deep Dive
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On today’s episode, our newest host and Technical Marketing E...
The Facebook Outage, Explained (10/4/21) | Outage Deep Dive
00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. 00:15 Headlines: Today we’re going to do a ...
When BGP Routes Accidentally Get Hijacked: A Lesson In Internet Vulnerability | Outage Deep Dive
00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. 00:08 Headlines: Today, Mike Hicks (Principa...
The Akamai DNS Outage and the Case for CDN Redundancy (July 1-23, 2021) | Outage Deep Dive
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. I’m joined today by Mike Hicks, principal solutions analyst h...