The Internet Just Had Another Major Global Outage. Why Does This Keep Happening?
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The internet experienced another major global outage, sparking discussions about the causes and consequences of such events, as well as the need for improved infrastructure and resilience.
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Throw in penny pinching and cost cutting and you run on the edge. Nobody gets a bonus for spending money on backup systems. Nobody gets fired for buying ibm.
From what understand that’s a feature you can’t opt out of.
AWS is a single on if failure. The same point used globally by an industry that can’t imagine any other way.
Diversity is defence. Monoculture is a strategic weakness.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
> DNS is like an internet location engine, converting user-friendly web addresses like amazon.com into IP addresses - a series of numbers that other websites and applications can understand.