Outages

Not Every Bug or Outage is Preventable, But Help Is Out There. Here's What You Can Do.
Outages

Not Every Bug or Outage is Preventable, But Help Is Out There. Here's What You Can Do.

Good guidelines and tools to help head off an outage are available. Here are 4. Ever hear of 'chaos prevention'?
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4 Ways to Prepare for the Next Apocalyptic Amazon Web Services Outage

4 Ways to Prepare for the Next Apocalyptic Amazon Web Services Outage

Remember February? Data feeds of hotel prices, user activity, photographs, favorited sites and product offers delivered a spinning wheel of death.
Q Manning | 6 min read
When Amazon Makes a Mistake, Expect a Prompt, Overly Detailed Response

When Amazon Makes a Mistake, Expect a Prompt, Overly Detailed Response

The internet outage on Tuesday was caused by a programmer's inputting error.
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Why Some Websites May Not Be Working for You Today

Why Some Websites May Not Be Working for You Today

People had trouble accessing sites including Twitter and Vox, but others found the sites accessible in Europe or via mobile phones.
Reuters | 1 min read
Twitter Suffers Worldwide Outage

Twitter Suffers Worldwide Outage

The social-media network had greeted visitors with a message that there was something technically wrong.
Ray Hennessey | 1 min read

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