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The Morning the Internet Forgot an Address: Anatomy of Cloud Outages
On a Monday in October 2025, fictional SRE lead Hamid Rostami wakes to forty-seven pages. His payments company doesn't run in AWS us-east-1, but its identity provider, fraud vendor and support tool all do. In episode one hundred and seventy four we take apart five of the most instructive outages of the past decade, using the companies' own post-incident reports. We cover a backbone command that erased Facebook from the internet, a twenty-one-field template that crashed 8.5 million Windows PCs, a race condition that emptied DynamoDB's DNS record, and a feature file that got too big for…
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