Half the Internet Broken for 14 Hours - October 2025 AWS Outage
A race condition in DynamoDB's DNS system triggered a 14-hour cascading failure across AWS. The root cause reveals a fundamental distributed systems anti-pattern—and uncomfortable questions about the economics of cloud resilience.
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Zhiyan — writing about software, from the unconventional path.
offbeatengineer · nov 2025
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