I didn't know so many sites were depending on Fastly. Stack Overflow, GitHub, reddit, ..., even pip is unavailable. My development workflow is completely janked up. It is a bit scary that we are putting so many eggs in one basket.
Maybe we need a crawler that keeps track of the hidden centralisation of the web. Or is someone doing that already?
Cloudflare, AWS, fastly, etc. It’s not quite all eggs in one basket, but the amount of baskets is small, and the amount of eggs in them is growing. This is a timely reminder of that.
We said the same when AWS was down. Same when fastly CDN is down. It turns out we are not putting eggs in one basket but we are putting all our (an organization's offerings) in one basket (cloud provider). That seems to be the core issue IMO.
Of course, the opposite would be outsourcing all responsibilities, so there obviously is an art to balancing these two extremes.
At work we have fastly, cloudflare, and some others. Fastly has been removed from the pool so we're back up. Fortunatly (or rather thanks to planning) we didn't rely on a cloud service to do that though (say a password stored in cloud based bitwarden)