THE BREAKDOWN ECONOMY
The Breakdown Economy examines major failures in technology, business, and infrastructure to help you see the next breakdown before it happens.
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- Aug 9, 2026
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- ~18 subscribers
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- Jul 12, 2026
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How Uber Runs Infrastructure Across 70+ Cities Without Catastrophic Failure (opens the original)
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How Uber Runs Infrastructure Across 70+ Cities Without Catastrophic Failure Uber operates across more than 70 cities, millions of users, global payment systems, ride matching, surge pricing, machine learning, and real-time infrastructure. So why doesn’t one major cloud failure bring the whole platform down? In this Season 4 premiere of The Breakdown Economy, we go inside Uber’s multi-cloud infrastructure strategy — the controversial decision to stop depending on one cloud provider and instead di
The Future of Infrastructure in 2050 Building Resilient Systems with captions (opens the original)
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What could infrastructure look like in 2050 if we actually learned from today’s failures? In this Season 3 finale of The Breakdown Economy, we look beyond outages, cloud failures, bad deployments, fragile systems, and short-term thinking — and ask what the future could look like if companies built infrastructure with resilience in mind from the beginning. This episode brings together the major lessons from Season 3: multi-cloud strategy, chaos engineering, distributed systems, self-healing infra
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