The recent Heroku outage, lasting over six hours, has sent shockwaves through the developer community, disrupting countless web platforms and leaving many unable to access essential tools. This situation highlights the critical dependency we have on cloud services and the ripple effect even a single platform's downtime can create. As an Industrial Security Engineer, it’s a stark reminder of the importance of robust contingency plans and the need for businesses to diversify their cloud infrastructure to mitigate risks. Outages like this can be a wake-up call for companies to rethink their reliance on any single service. What strategies do you think businesses should adopt to ensure resilience against such disruptions?
The recent Heroku outage, lasting over six hours, has sent shockwaves through the developer community, disrupting countless web platforms and leaving many unable to access essential tools. This situation highlights the critical dependency we have on cloud services and the ripple effect even a single platform's downtime can create. As an Industrial Security Engineer, it’s a stark reminder of the importance of robust contingency plans and the need for businesses to diversify their cloud infrastructure to mitigate risks. Outages like this can be a wake-up call for companies to rethink their reliance on any single service. What strategies do you think businesses should adopt to ensure resilience against such disruptions?




