On the Catchpoint blog, locate the featured article. Identify its full title, publication date, and author. From the article's opening paragraphs, explain the specific cause of the Google Cloud outage and state one key lesson Catchpoint emphasizes from this incident.
Navigate to blog.catchpoint.com. Accept the cookie policy if prompted. Locate and click on the 'Featured blog' article. Extract the full title of the article. Extract the publication date of the article. Extract the author of the article. Read the initial paragraphs to identify the specific cause of the Google Cloud outage. Identify one critical lesson highlighted from the Google Cloud outage in the initial paragraphs.
The full title of the featured article is 'Invisible dependencies, visible impact: Lessons from the Google Cloud outage'. The publication date is 'June 13, 2025'. The author is 'Catchpoint Team'. The specific cause of the Google Cloud outage is identified as 'an automated quota change buried deep in Google’s infrastructure'. One critical lesson highlighted is 'no one is too big to go down' OR 'the systems we rely on are deeply interconnected, often veiled, and rarely as fail-safe as we imagine' OR 'relying on status pages that lag by 30 minutes to an hour is insufficient' OR 'every digital business, no matter how large, needs a better way to see in the dark'.