That time Google Cloud Platform bricked the Internet…

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Last week, Google Cloud Platform managed to take down a large chunk of the internet by pushing some bad code into production. In today's video, we'll find out exactly what happened from a software engineering perspective.

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🔖 Topics Covered
- How Google Cloud caused an internet outage
- The repercussions for Google
- How the GCP outage happened
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