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Ep. 48: An Eventful End to October for WhatsApp, Zscaler, Salesforce, and Facebook

By Mike Hicks & Chris Villemez
| November 4, 2022 | 1 min read
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Summary

We unpack four notable outages that impacted WhatsApp, Zscaler, Salesforce, and Facebook, which all appear to have a common theme.


This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this episode, we unpack four notable outages that impacted WhatsApp, Zscaler, Salesforce, and Facebook, which all appear to have a common theme. Join our co-hosts Mike Hicks, Principal Solutions Analyst at ThousandEyes, and Chris Villemez, Technical Marketing Engineer at ThousandEyes, as they walk through each incident to understand what happened and discuss how network professionals can attempt to mitigate these types of scenarios in the future.


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