Discussion

• @menhguin Minh Nhat Nguyen on x

  wow. bullish google. took down chatgpt + half the internet for gemini 3 release.

• @sxtvik @sxtvik on x

  Surely no big deal that Cloudflare went down a month after AWS went down and that most infrastructure for essential communication, information, and human coordination now relies on these centralized companies. Completely normal outages and definitely not a scary test of any kind.

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  so we've had major AWS and Cloudflare outages all in a matter of weeks it's not DNS there's no way it's DNS it was DNS

• @patio11 Patrick McKenzie on x

  Might be a good day to inventory “What here goes down if AWS/Cloudflare/etc are down.” Assuming you're at a scale where “Meh that will never be more than basis points of our downtime so not worth worrying about” no longer applies.

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  Cloudflare but it doesn't take down the internet every couple of months. Who's building this?

• @stacey_hauff Stacey Hauff on x

  I don't know what Cloudflare is, I don't know what a server is, I don't really even know what the internet is. All I know is the information I need is on a website saying “oopsie! error!” and that is bad.

• @eugenewei Eugene Wei on x

  TFW a Cloudflare outage takes down half the internet [image]

• @asvanevik Alex Svanevik on x

  all the epstein files were hosted on cloudflare

• @typesfast Ryan Petersen on x

  Apparently “old man yells at cloudflare” was already an emoji in the Flexport slack before this morning https://t.co/...

• @zackkorman Zack Korman on x

  Downdetector has a new interface for showing if cloudflare is down. [image]

• @philipvollet Philip Vollet on x

  500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR on cloudflare's network is the tech equivalent of “the captain has turned on the fasten seatbelt sign” but the plane is already in a death spiral

• @madsposting Mads on x

  my ai gf because of cloudflare [image]

• @isik5 Isik Mater on x

  After rejecting its past, X's solution to the awful Cloudflare outage is to run back to its ex (Twitter Inc. infrastructure). Twitter's tech legacy saves the day. Long live the ghost of the bird! [image]

• @luciascarlet † Lucia Scarlet on x

  is it just me or has Cloudflare seemingly been touching itself more often this year than in the past 10 years combined

• @emremighty Alex Mason on x

  > google > “is cloudflare down” > click to the website > can't reach it because they use cloudflare

• @mpaepper Marc Päpper on x

  When the downdetector is down, because it uses what is down (Cloudflare) [image]

• @letterboxd @letterboxd on x

  There is a current issue with Cloudflare, which impacts our site and numerous others. We are awaiting updates from them about their ongoing outage. Back soon! 🧡 💚 💙 [image]

• @suchnerve Vivian on x

  imagine working at cloudflare right now during this global outage lol

• @coder_blvck @coder_blvck on x

  cloudflare was down for a few minutes and half the internet stopped working, insane scale.

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  Part of Amazon AWS went down back in October and a lot of things broke. Now something is up with Cloudflare... Now is a good time to remember that a lot of eggs are in a handful baskets. Time again to have those big conversations about what resiliency looks like.

• @netblocks @netblocks on x

  ℹ️ Note: A wide range of online services are currently experiencing disruptions due to a technical issue affecting Cloudflare's global network; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering [image]

• @fkadev Fatih Kadir Akın on x

  Cloudflare, are you under attack? [image]

• @chribjel Christoffer Bjelke on x

  Cloudflare took twitter down with them [image]

• @pzrsaa Parsa on x

  > checks if cloudflare is down > visits downdetector > doesn't work > they use cloudflare [image]

• @aaronp613 Aaron on x

  As someone who works in IT, this morning is going to be hell. Thanks a lot CloudFlare

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  you know it's a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅 [image]

• @liron Liron Shapira on x

  The AI won't tell anyone when it's taken over the internet, but there will be signs [image]

• @amuse @amuse on x

  DOWN? Looks like Cloudflare is causing issues... [image]

• @davidgerard.co.uk @davidgerard.co.uk on bluesky

  yeah everything that trusted Cloudflare is fucked  —  “There is an internal server error on Cloudflare's network.”  —  Cloudflare wanted a chokehold on the internet, and this is what that looks like  —  status: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/ 8g...  [embedded post]

• @yongfook Jon Yongfook on x

  I'm not mad. I pay CF a few hundred bucks a month because they are the best at what they do. And if there's some issue it's some very niche thing that I don't understand. And they will fix it. That's why I pay a few hundred bucks a month.

• @johnkutay John Kutay on x

  Cloudflare taking notes from CrowdStrike and AWS: just trigger an incident and boom...instant ‘look how mission-critical we are’ campaign.

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  been doing this for too long b/c the first thing i thought of was the 2012 twitter outage from a cascading bug that spawned its own parody account — remember parody accounts?? — and became a whole news cycle 13 years ago that account would have gotten a book deal [image]

• @yenkel @yenkel on x

  I should have started a @Polymarket for “config change” hugops to cloudflare team. this incident shows how big their customer base is [image]

• @muvaffakonus @muvaffakonus on x

  One operational lesson I got out of this incident is this Never ever have your DNS and the load balancer run by the same vendor. Spinning up the backup load balancer took 15m but worthless when you can't change the DNS

• @nixCraft@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Cloudflare bot management code update is the reason why it was crashed today.  —  https://www.bbc.com/...  https://x.com/...