Would you care to embellish us all with your expertise then? I'd love a link to your blog post explaining the outage. This isn't Reddit, it's Hacker News and on HN if you dispute something you have to at the very least lightly back it up.

Maybe you're right, what would a company who was voted Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company of 2011 & again in 2012 by the Wall Street Journal know about networking and how Internet traffic is routed, right? The very fact they even embedded a video showing the traffic dropping off in the blog post I think proves they know a thing or two about network traffic, they provide content delivery and domain name server services to a lot of happy customers after all.