S2E24: Down goes Fastly, down goes the internet

On this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted? Fastly outage and cloud resilience Internet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issue Does the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines? What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages Grindr Is Down So Users Are Hitting The Downdetector Comment Section To Pick Up SRE and error budgets — need to review the concept https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1402301316165160966 S2E10: SLOs and SREs a conversation with Brian Singer from Nobl9 https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E10-SLOs-and-SREs-a-conversation-with-Brian-Singer-from-Nobl9-ersprg WeWork follow-up — losses continue mounting up https://robcampbell.co/2021/06/09/we-dont-work/ Steven Sinofsky on remote work https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1403112390032388096 Hardcore Software, Steven Sinofsky’s newsletter with the history of early Microsoft https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com How to negotiate with ransomware hackers — turns out there are scammers who will negotiate between victims and criminals to try to arbitrage payments and pocket the difference https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/how-to-negotiate-with-ransomware-hackers Recommendations Dominic Love Death + Robots volume 2 on Netflix Lilac Grace and Frankie - in part for the Mac tech support scene Mike WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Theme music by Renato Podestà. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!