Andy is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai Technologies. He is on a lifelong journey to understand, invent, apply, and leverage technology in our world. Both personally and professionally, technology is at the root of Andy's interests and passions. He has always had an interest in understanding how things work at their fundamental level. In addition to figuring out how something worked, the recursive journey of learning about enabling technologies and underlying principles is a fascinating experience which Andy greatly enjoys.
Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after getting hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based cloud company Fastly Inc (FSLY.N).
Typical service configurations for a cloud service provider can include updating security rules to protect information, or instructing a server to refresh the contents of a news site before serving it to a customer.