Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
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Expert commentator on internet architecture
On February 16, 2026, a single misconfigured routing update at Cloudflare's Ashburn, Virginia data center cascaded across the internet, taking down X for three hours, degrading Amazon Web Services' largest region, and disrupting thousands of websites globally. The error took 40 minutes to identify but four hours to fully resolve because corrupted routing tables had already spread to upstream providers worldwide.
Updated Feb 16
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