[conspire] (forw) Re: [skeptic] A butterfly flapped its wings and:

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

> Now, on the other hand, putting most or all of one's eggs in one basket,
> oh ... like Fastly ... might sometimes get bitten or have a problem
> or glitch.  "Oops".  Oh well.

The only thing notable about the story was a single customer setting a
valid local IP address or DNS setting triggering a CDN bug that took
almost the entire CDN down for an hour.  There must have been one
whopper of a bug in Fastly's software infrastructure, that they were
_that_ fragile in reaction to one customer enacting a valid local
network setting.

A CDN's mission is to help customers overcome _hostile_ (and also heavy
and performance-sensitive) Internet traffic.  This one couldn't even
survive contact with a friendly customer just going about his/her local
affairs.  That is eyebrow-raising in what it implies about Fastly --
albeit not, of course, about the Internet.