Fastly's Tuesday Morning Outage: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Content delivery expert Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) suffered a rare global outage on the morning of Tuesday, June 8. A bad "service configuration" caused disruptions across the company's global network of content delivery endpoints, triggering outages for many of Fastly's clients -- and their clients, in turn.

One might expect the company's stock to suffer on a day like this but that's not quite what happened. Fastly's shares fell as much as 7% in Tuesday's pre-market trading but they recovered quickly. The stock closed Tuesday's regular trading session 10.9% higher. Some would argue that Fastly's stock rose as a direct result of the early morning outage, not in spite of it.

Let's take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly details of Fastly's brief service interruption.

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