The Router Change That Deleted Facebook
Meta's 2021 outage was a masterclass in how one backbone mistake can take DNS, tooling, and recovery down with it.
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The Six-Hour Vanishing: A BGP Tragedy in Three Acts
One routine command, one silent backbone, and half the planet mashing refresh in unison.
When the Safety Net Eats the Trapeze Artist
The Facebook outage of October 2021 wasn't about BGP. It was about what happens when your safety mechanisms assume partial failure — and you get total failure.
The Day the Baby Monitors Screamed: Dyn, Mirai, and the DNS Opera
On October 21, 2016, the internet learned its lullabies came from cameras, and they sang in anguish.