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We pushed a CDN config that triggered a CDN provider bug. Took down the CDN's entire presence on one continent. Broke a whole bunch of recognizable sites for a bit.


Are you referring to the Fastly outage that happened a few weeks ago, or is this more common than I realize?


No, not that particular outage.


Although, the recent Fastly outage spanned more than one continent




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