Handy, but Problematic?
Another CDN, Akamai, said about 500 of its customers were affected after a software bug.
“The large majority of the remaining customers manually rerouted shortly thereafter.”
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CDNs are gaining more traffic because they allow local distribution of data instead of sending it through undersea cables.
CDNs also offer fast connection speeds and resilience against cyberattacks, Kolkman explained.
Internet Vulnerabilities Abound
CDNs arent the only reason the internet is vulnerable.
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Thats because the web is controlled by software whose specifications are freely available, he pointed out.
It has always been well known that the internet is the most hostile environment possible for code."
“When a problem does occur, its key that a company gets to the bottom of it ASAP.
Instead of humans having to troubleshoot manually, machine learning can do this almost instantly and more reliably.”
Etemadi doesnt think well ever be able to prevent internet outages completely.
“The internet is made up of software, and software has bugs,” he said.
“The software can be hacked.
you could only plan for and mitigate it.”
