Resilience Case Studies

When the Ocean Blinks: Anatomy of the 2024 East Coast Reroute Crisis

A series of subsea cable disruptions in 2024 pushed transatlantic traffic onto domestic relay infrastructure that was never sized for the job. Latency and routing data show which regional grids buckled, which adapted, and what continental failover design should look like before the next cut.

Oct 25, 2026

Built to Bend: Five Distributed Systems That Absorbed the Unthinkable — and the Traits They Share

When traffic arrives like weather instead of like requests, most topologies shatter. We examined five relay networks that survived genuine black swan events and found a common blueprint: admission control, degradation tiers, and rate shaping pushed to the edges.

Oct 24, 2026