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T'internet is down: expert views wanted

"Fastly CDN is having major problems affecting Stack Overflow, Spotify, Stripe, Gov UK and GitHub among others. This is what happens when half of the internet relies on Goliaths like Amazon, Google and Fastly for all of its servers and web services. The entire internet has become dangerously geared on one player."

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Lee Marples

"This incident highlights the reliance that many of the world’s biggest websites put on content delivery networks (CDNs) such as Fastly. As there are so few of these CDN services, these outages can occur from time-to-time.

"By using these CDNs to push content to readers, these websites are usually fast and responsive, but on this occasion they have been left with egg on their collective faces.

"The technical backends of these big websites are probably fine, but it is the frontends that can’t be accessed and content cannot be pushed as the network is down."

With extensive experience within the IT industry, I have personally dealt with IT problems and complications to all extent and size during my career.

Prior to Neustro and Neuways, I was the European IT Director of Mondi Packaging (who, at the time, were a division of Anglo American), a Senior Business Analyst and ERP Implementation Consultant of Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu Limited, and an IT Manager at Remploy.

T'internet is down: expert views wanted

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Lee Marples

Founder and Strategic Director at Think3

Martin Roberts

Managing Director at Neuways

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