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Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by autoexec on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:09PM (#46168042)
That was admittedly hyperbole, but since we're talking about a company with assets and revenue in the billions I'm not sure it matters. The fact remains that a lack of money/resources is not their problem.
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Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by evanelias on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:32PM (#46168259)
They don't have unlimited resources. They have ~5000 employees. That's not small but it's not huge either. For sake of comparison, Google hit that headcount level literally 20 years ago.
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Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by autoexec on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:14PM (#46168663)
They have enough money to buy anything they need. The CEO alone has billions. He could pay for as many employees as he wants out of his own pocket and not notice. In fact he's good at buying people, even senators.
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Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by evanelias on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:58PM (#46169024)
That doesn't make sense. It would be like saying Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla all should be incapable of engineering mistakes because their owner is rich. The world doesn't work that way.
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