While major outages like the recent CrowdStrike incident dominate headlines, those of us in the trenches ensuring Internet Resilience know that most of our issues are not necessarily global but localized by geography, autonomous systems, or something else. Micro-outages – those elusive, localized incidents – can pose the most persistent threat to observability.

Even after decades of building web applications and troubleshooting live production issues, the thrill of solving why some random website is failing never fades. Last week, a colleague shared a link to ONUG’s website about their upcoming event in NYC this fall. I clicked on the link, and was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the page to load and it did not. Finally, after about 30 seconds, Chrome greets me with “ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT”

Fact: No one likes traffic congestion. That’s why no one pines for the days before Google Maps. Thanks to navigation apps on our phones and cars, we can see traffic updates that help us avoid busy roads during rush hour and reach our destinations faster. The same logic applies to content delivered over the Internet. Congestion on the web happens when data packets flood the network, causing delays and packet loss.

Today, Catchpoint is pleased to be sharing the results of our Global Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Bleaching Rates measurement campaign, covering the state of ECN bleaching worldwide, according to Catchpoint’s perspective. ISPs, telecoms and streaming services, among others (this information should be of interest to anyone with ISP dependencies), will be able to draw on this information to determine if your network or an upstream network is experiencing ECN bleaching.

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As the world gears up for the Paris Olympics, it’s not just athletes who need to be in peak condition. This Olympics comes hot on the heels of the largest IT outage in history. Recovery efforts from the CrowdStrike outage are still ongoing. Lessons will be learned, no doubt, but at least one takeaway is already evident: the modern web is an oh-so-fragile thing; neglect digital resilience at your peril.

“You can’t start a fire without a spark,” so sings The Boss. You can’t run an organization these days without digital dependencies. Nor – or perhaps because of this - can we outrun digital failure.

As we write, on Friday July 19th, a massive global cyber outage is continuing to take down critical services around the world dependent on Microsoft-based computers.

This is a guest blog written by the Chinafy Team. Most people in the website space would have heard of the term Great Firewall of China. What those people won’t really know, though, is what that means. For context, most websites don’t work the same way in China that they do elsewhere. Due to the way the China internet is designed, most websites take a long time to load and fail to function properly.

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