Speaker
Abstract
In January of 2023, the Microsoft Azure Wide Area Network experienced a global outage. If you were a Microsoft customer at the time, you were impacted by this outage. Sean walks us through the numerous factors - events and conditions - that contributed to the outage and explains why it's not always DNS. (Spoiler: sometimes it's BGP)
Topics
Incident Analysis
Learning from Incidents
Incident Response
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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