I recently took a look at a calendar and realized that it has been over 6 months since I last stepped foot in an office. My new normal involves getting up in the morning, grabbing a cup (or three) of coffee and heading to the desk/couch/dinner table to get work done. It feels that normalcy is defined only by the moment you…
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On today’s episode, Angelique and I cover off on a couple outages that occurred over the past week. First, we discuss an application outage at Instagram that occurred on September 17th and lasted…
In this video presentation, Steve Bamford, Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer at IG Group explains how the company adjusted to a remote working environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. IG Group is a world leader in online trading, operating in 16 countries with 1,700 staff worldwide. Most of IG Group’s trades are…
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. It was another quiet week on the Internet, so we wanted to spend some time answering your questions around some recent outages. Catch this episode as we discuss how you can understand the…
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. The Internet held up reasonably well over the past week, all things considered. There were no major outages to report, which is a welcome repose for those impacted by the major outages the…
Written by Angelique Medina and Archana Kesavan Yesterday, August 30th, CenturyLink/Level 3 suffered a major incident, lasting nearly 5 hours, that impacted their network, their customers, and many other ISPs and services either directly or indirectly connected to their network. The outage began at approximately 10AM UTC (6AM EST) and…