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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by davedx on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:07AM (#38139580)
And that this was unironically written in the same post mortem: “We are good at distributed systems.”

There’s a lack of awareness there.

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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by steve1977 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:15AM (#38139626)
Well, they did distribute their systems. Some were in the running DC, some were not ;)
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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by ZiiS on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:54AM (#38139827)
They are good at systems that are distributed; they are very bad at ensuring systems they sell thier custoners are distributed.
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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by emadda on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:22AM (#38140375)
Their uptime was eventually consistent
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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by ecs78 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:22AM (#38141871)
haha. The control plane was eventually consistent after 3 days
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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by belter on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:03AM (#38141077)
They distributed the faults across all their customers....
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Re:Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage by brookst on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:24AM (#38141266)
Good != infallible
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