Is the Internet Reliable Yet?
summary
Claim: global CDN and cloud delivery peak at ~99% (~3 days/year) availability, so the web behaves more like spaceflight than utilities (~1.5 hours/year for electricity). Measured failure modes span millisecond packet losses to yearly provider outages. Proven mitigations include end-to-end audits to catch pipeline breaks, paranoid fail-safe config behavior, a central remediation engine called Crayfish that auto-heals, and request-routing Wahoo plasticity to route around Transit/BGP failures.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:41Foundational technology
- 4:17Why doesn't the internet "just work"?
- 4:40Assembly lines
- 5:34End-to-end audits
- 6:23Fail-safe
- 8:17Homeostasis
- 9:29Plasticity
- 9:56Wahoo
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