The Internet Report

The end-to-end delivery of modern digital services can introduce a complex web of dependencies and failure points, which can stem from direct relationships as well as third-party providers, introducing layers of abstraction for operations teams to keep track of.
 
Managing this complex ecosystem can be challenging. Unexpected issues may arise from seemingly insignificant components, surprising even the largest, most technologically sophisticated organizations.

For example, in recent weeks, problems at third-party providers led to outages at McDonald’s and the Department of Motor Vehicles. Tune in to the episode to hear what happened and explore other incidents from the last couple of weeks.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:09 Payment and Ordering Systems Cut Out at McDonald’s
04:36 Disruptions at the DMV
08:48 Cable Cut in West Africa
10:16 Another Fiber Cut, but With Layered Redundancy
14:12 PlayStation Network, GeForce Now Experience Issues
16:21 Get in Touch 

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For more insights, check out these links:

- The Internet Report: Pulse Update Blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-pulse-update-mcdonalds-dmv-outages?utm_source=transistor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=na_fy24q3_internetreportpulse32_podcast

- Explore the Africa undersea cable cut in the ThousandEyes platform (no login required): https://alxucgibmtsxarllvvybwfagzkvvlokf.share.thousandeyes.com/

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What is The Internet Report?

This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Catch our Outage Deep Dive series for special coverage of Internet outages. We go under the hood to determine what happened, covering key lessons and ways IT teams can minimize downtime in similar situations.

Also tune in every other week for the Pulse Update podcast series to hear from the Internet experts at ThousandEyes as they share the latest data on ISP outages, public cloud provider network outages, collaboration app network outages, and more. Then, the hosts dig into some of the most interesting outage events from the last few weeks.