Aleks Wandering Fella 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇷🇸 🌊🐶

Something pretty unusual has been happening over the past 72 hours. Just look at the number of services that have run into trouble: The FAA grounded flights across the entire United States after a major failure in its air traffic control infrastructure. Then as passengers started looking for alternatives, Amtrak's website and app ran into ticket-booking problems. Trains were still running, but booking them became a headache. Microsoft 365 suffered widespread outages affecting businesses, government agencies and public services. Even 911 related systems weren't completely spared. One emergency-service provider reported problems with notifications, while reports of 911 disruptions spiked online. There's no confirmation of a nationwide emergency-call outage. In Japan, the Microsoft disruption also affected port logistics, forcing some container terminals to use alternative procedures. Workday had its own problems after a disaster recovery test unexpectedly connected backup services to live production databases. AWS, GitHub, Cloudflare and Claude also experienced disruptions. And MarineTraffic reported problems with port arrival information. So we're talking about aviation, railway bookings, emergency-service support, maritime logistics, cloud infrastructure and business software. All running into problems within roughly three days. Now to be clear, these weren't all outages of the same scale. Some were relatively minor, and some were knock-on effects of other failures. And there's no evidence that a coordinated cyberattack or a single underlying cause connects them. Still, that's quite a collection of disruptions in a very short period. Coincidence? Possibly. But it does highlight something worth thinking about: just how much of our everyday infrastructure depends on digital systems that we barely notice until they stop working.