Episode 1: The Day the Internet Almost Died

June 8, 2021. Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, the BBC, GitHub — all gone. Not a hacker attack. Not a cyberattack. Just one bug, sitting quietly in the code for three weeks, waiting for one customer to change one setting.In this episode, we follow the story of the Fastly outage — how 85% of one of the internet's most critical networks collapsed in under 60 seconds, and how a small team of engineers fixed it in 49 minutes with three lines of code.🎯 Level: B1–C1📝 Full transcript: realtalkenglish.ru