108: Deez Network Servers
Well, this was one heck of a week. On Monday, Facebook experienced a historic outage of its infrastructure that impacted services used by billions of people. On Tuesday, a new Windows came out. On Wednesday, Twitch disclosed one of the largest data breaches in years, maybe ever. We were duty-bound to talk through our view on all these momentous events, and some of the things we've learned along the way, and that's exactly what we did. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. · Will Smith, Brad Shoemaker
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Show Notes
Well, this was one heck of a week. On Monday, Facebook experienced a historic outage of its infrastructure that impacted services used by billions of people. On Tuesday, a new Windows came out. On Wednesday, Twitch disclosed one of the largest data breaches in years, maybe ever. We were duty-bound to talk through our view on all these momentous events, and some of the things we've learned along the way, and that's exactly what we did.
If you'd like to jump to any of the individual topics this week, the timecodes are:
Facebook: 00:10:19
Twitch: 00:36:57
Windows 11: 00:56:16
Some handy links from this week's ep:
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (cloudflare.com)
More details about the October 4 outage - Facebook Engineering
Updates on the Twitch Security Incident | Twitch Blog
Twitch’s security problems started long before this week’s hack - The Verge
Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod
Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod