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The main problem is that they had a failover system, the mystery is where was it in this outage?

Why didn't this trigger? where was this system in place to prevent further cascading failures?

> Blame the companies that relied on Fastly

So it's everybody's fault Fastly went down now? That is a new one.

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If companyA got affected by this, then either: 1- Its companyA's fault for not having a contingency plan or 2- Its companyA's accepted risk that this might happen.

We understand you're upset and passionate about this, perhaps now when more information has been published you understand better the circumstances that caused this problem.