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Podcast: Cisco Podcast Network
Episode: Outage Patterns We’re Seeing in 2025: Navigating Complex Dependencies
Description: When we looked at outages from the first half of 2025, we saw distinct patterns in how distributed systems failed. Consistent with our ongoing outage analysis, our data revealed a rise in subtle functional failures and service degradations where symptoms often seem disconnected from their root causes.
Tune in to hear more about our findings from 2025 outages so far, or use the chapters below to jump to the sections that most interest you.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:46 The Impact of Agile Development
04:40 Hidden Functional Failures
08:04 Outages With Cascading Effects
11:52 Configuration-related Outages
12:39 Backend Issues
16:55 By the Numbers: 2025 Outage Trends
18:11 Get in Touch
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