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May 14, 2020

How the Internet reacted to COVID-19 and kept working

John Graham-Cumming, CTO @ Cloudflare

We’ve all seen news stories about the Internet being threatened by #COVID19. As people were forced to work from home and children to study over the Internet, some worried it would collapse. We heard how Netflix and others had to reduce their streaming quality to stop European networks from being overloaded. I’ll talk about what really happened and what had to be done to keep the Internet running smoothly.