Everything Is Overcomplicated
An internet outage exposes the gap between how we think technology might work and how it actually does.
by Samuel Arbesman
Jun 08, 2021
2 minutes
Many Americans woke up this morning to discover that some of the most popular sites on the web were down. CNN, The New York Times, Reddit—even The Atlantic—all suffered issues. Was it a coordinated cyberattack? Something to do with Amazon Web Services? No, it was because of . As , Fastly “provides vital but obscure behind-the-scenes cloud computing services to many of the web’s high profile sites.”
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