Image: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) In the wee hours of Tuesday early morning, a tech supplier called Fastly experienced a major interruption that unintentionally broke some of the most significant websites on the web. In a blog site post published late the other day, Fastly engineering VP Nick Rockwell explained the company “experienced a worldwide outage due to an undiscovered software application bug,” that emerged when a single customer just … reconfigured his web connection.Per Rockwells blog, Fastly issued a software application update in mid-May that unintentionally came pre-packaged with the bug that might be activated under specific situations. Rockwell discussed that Fastly saw the international blackout “within one minute,” and then made quick work of covering up the problem.

Image: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a tech supplier called Fastly experienced a major outage that inadvertently broke some of the greatest websites on the web. In a blog site post released late yesterday, Fastly engineering VP Nick Rockwell described the company “experienced a worldwide interruption due to an undiscovered software application bug,” that emerged when a single customer simply … reconfigured his web connection.Per Rockwells blog, Fastly released a software application update in mid-May that accidentally came pre-packaged with the bug that could be activated under specific scenarios. Rockwell discussed that Fastly noticed the international failure “within one minute,” and then made quick work of patching up the issue.