From Breakingviews: Like the banking system, the internet looks simple from the outside but is really an elaborate patchwork. The Fastly outage is a reminder to take life slower, richardbeales1 says
A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration
Sites including the UK government and the New York Times were inaccessible for up to an hour earlier in the day. Other affected websites included Reddit and Spotify. The culprit was a glitch at Fastly, a $6 billion company with a network of servers that help high-traffic websites move content around the web. Simply put, it gets data nearer to end users, avoiding traffic spikes and congestion and improving security.
Not so the internet, an informal, mutually beneficial collaboration between companies, governments and others. Mostly that works remarkably effectively. Where there are bottlenecks, companies like Fastly pop up to ease the pressure. But governments don’t enforce 99.999% uptime promises, or backstop broken links in real time. Users that need extra reliability have to pay more or build critical infrastructure themselves.
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