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Headlines: Today, I’m joined by Hans Ashlock, Director of Technology & Innovation at ThousandEyes, to unpack today’s major outage at Fastly, a popular CDN provider.

Under the Hood: Today, I’m joined by Hans Ashlock, Director of Technology & Innovation at ThousandEyes, to unpack today’s major outage at Fastly, a popular CDN provider. The widespread outage occurred around 9:50 UTC, about 5:50 am ET, and mostly impacted users across Europe and Asia due to the timing. he outage lasted approximately one hour until 10:50 UTC, yet residual impacts were felt beyond that. Today’s outage is a good example of the importance of having outside-in visibility not just across your app, but also to your app’s edge and all its dependent services.

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