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Apr 2023
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The Virgin Media ISP outage - What happe...

Hussein Nasser
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<p>BGP (Border gateway protocol) withdrawals caused the Virgin media ISP customers to lose their Internet connection. I go into details on this video. 0:00 Intro 2:00 What happened? 4:11 How BGP works? 11:50 Version media withdrawals 15:00 Deep dive Fundamentals of Backend Engineering Design patterns udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) htt ... Show More
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