Detailed examinations of real-world infrastructure and security incidents
In April 2018, TSB Bank in the United Kingdom set out to perform what was supposed to be a carefully planned migration of its core banking systems. …
On September 4, 2018, something peculiar happened to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. What began as a routine cooling system failure in a …
Picture Christmas morning. Millions of children around the world tear open packages to find shiny new Nintendo Switch consoles. Their eyes light up. …
On July 17, 2020, at approximately 6:27 AM UTC, a significant portion of the internet simply… stopped working. For about 30 minutes, websites …
Every software engineer lives in fear of that nightmare scenario: the production-breaking change that takes down an entire platform. On March 5, 2023, …
On October 4, 2021, Facebook and its entire family of apps—Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus—simply vanished from the internet. No error …