The Pulse #154: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem
Deep Dives
Explore related topics with these Wikipedia articles, rewritten for enjoyable reading:
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Cloudflare
13 min read
The article centers on a Cloudflare incident - understanding their infrastructure, history, and role in internet architecture provides essential context for appreciating the scope of the outage
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Single point of failure
12 min read
When a company like Cloudflare can take down half the internet, it illustrates the concept of single points of failure in distributed systems - a crucial engineering concept for understanding the incident's significance
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