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Cloudflare seems to be having some kind of oopsie (it's probably DNS.

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    The #CloudFlare outage follows a pattern we have seen before. Was it Google last time?1. Generate an exciting config file2. Auto-deploy the file everywhere3. Everything everywhere crashesAll these big systems want to be able to react quickly to certain types of events, so they probably all have this failure mode baked in. Because security! Or some such."Obviously" the files deployed this way "should" be validated carefully. And there "should" be canaries and staged roll-outs... Should.
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    The centralisation of internet infrastructure is concerning to me. Having 20% of the internet behind one CDN and 70% on US big tech cloud providers.... not goodEurope really needs to get tech independence from the US. We need multiple European cloud providers and a restriction on the use of AWS/GCP/Azure for government and public funded services#CloudFlare #CloudComputing
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    #Cloudflare #AWS #Azurehttps://www.heise.de/en/news/Cloudflare-outage-Services-globally-disrupted-11083254.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege
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    @rysiek Doesn’t really sound, from the article, as a traffic spike that “would probably bring any individual website down”. Sounds to me more like “we have this program vital to our infrastructure that parses up to 128 MB from this config file, and that’s been fine for years” and now they went slightly over the magic file limit and the piece of infra panicked on config read…