✅ invalid file
✅ deployed globally
✅ crashing the software
CloudFlare just pulled a CrowdStrike?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
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@rysiek ✅ somehow avoided triggering it in staging/QA env
@rysiek As they say: Everyone has a testing environment. Some are lucky to have a separate production one.
There is a book called Normal Accidents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
The author puts forth three rules that define systems susceptible to catastrophic accidents which are completely to be expected:
- the system is complex
- the system is tightly coupled
- the system has catastrophic potential
This describes huge cloud providers like CloudFlare very well, and specifically describes the last outage very well.
CloudFlare, AWS, Azure, GCP are simply Too Big Not To Fail.
@rysiek
And this is (just one reason) why I am a prepper with water and ship biscuits in my camper van along with the usual tents thermal sleeping bags medical supplies etc etc etc etc 😆
