The CrowdStrike Outage
One update, millions of blue screens, and a lesson in deployment discipline.
TwinTech Media Series
Silicon Stories
Short, sharp stories about unforgettable moments, failures, breakthroughs, vulnerabilities, and turning points in technology history.
What this series is for
Technology history is full of moments that changed everything in an afternoon. Silicon Stories tells one of them at a time, fast, accurate, and memorable, built for short-form discovery and for anyone who wants to understand how we got here.
The format
Each episode is a short narrated story about one important moment: an outage, a vulnerability, a breakthrough, a collapse. One moment, clearly told, with the lesson that still applies today.
On the slate
Episodes below are in planning or production. Published videos will be embedded here from the TwinTech YouTube channel as they launch, with preview images loading first so the page stays fast.
Y2K
The disaster that did not happen, and the enormous work that made sure of it.
The Day Facebook Disappeared
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp offline at once, from one routing change.
Log4Shell
A logging library, a single string, and a global scramble.
Heartbleed
The bug that bled secrets out of the internet's most trusted lock.
When AWS Sneezes
Why one region's bad day becomes the whole internet's problem.
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