S2E41: BGP brought down Facebook; Databricks moves into Low-Code/No-Code; What does it mean for the future of IT organizations everywhere?

Facebook outage, Twitch leak

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

Lost server

https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/

Twitch source code and payout data leaks

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/twitch_data_leak/

Also blamed on config error

Best comment: “It’s complex systems all the way down; even the turtles are complex systems.” https://twitter.com/swagitda_/status/1445376680684572678

NPM outage

npm Status - Service outage

Verica Open Incident Database

https://www.thevoid.community/

Low-code/no-code

Databricks Acquires Low-code/No-code Company to Expand its Lakehouse Platform to Citizen Data Scientists

https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-acquires-low-code-no-code-company-to-expand-its-lakehouse-platform-to-citizen-data-scientists

Get Started in No-Code App Development with Unqork and MongoDB | MongoDB

Quick News

Cisco raising prices due to supply chain challenges

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/ciscos_base_price_to_increase/

That Zoom/five9 tie-up we discussed back in episode 30? It’s not happening, in large part because it was to have been an all-stock offer, and Zoom’s stock is worth 23% less than it was when the deal was agreed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/zoom-and-five9-agree-to-terminate-acquisition-plan.html

https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E30-Apology-Podcast-e14uqn4/a-a672hvb

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