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Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by wat10000 on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:48PM (#46170801)
That’s fine if it’s just some random office workers. What if every airline goes down at the same time because they all rely on the same backend providers? What if every power generator shuts off? “Everything goes down simultaneously” is not, in general, something to aim for.
Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by tazjin on Saturday December 06, 2025 @09:07AM (#46173466)
That is literally how a large fraction of airlines work. It's called Amadeus, and it did have a big global outage not too long ago.
Re:Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 by wat10000 on Saturday December 06, 2025 @10:42AM (#46174172)
Which should be a good example of why this should be avoided.