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Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past
Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend
3 days ago 109.5K views 0 shares
Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past
Cloudflare outages have become the developer's equivalent of "my dog ate my homework" - except it's actually true half the time. The beauty here is that while your manager is frantically screaming at you to fix the site, you're just sitting there sipping coffee because literally nothing is under your control. The entire internet could be on fire, but as long as Cloudflare's status page shows red, you're untouchable. It's the perfect alibi: externally verifiable, affects millions of sites simultaneously, and best of all - there's absolutely nothing you can do about it except wait. Some devs have been known to secretly celebrate these outages as unexpected coffee breaks. The other guy clearly hasn't learned this sacred defense mechanism yet.

Follow Me For More Tips
Devops Webdev Networking Backend Cloud
13 days ago 312.1K views 1 shares
Follow Me For More Tips
Oh honey, nothing says "I'm a catch" quite like bonding over shared trauma from a Cloudflare outage. While normal people use pickup lines about eyes and smiles, our brave developer here is out here weaponizing infrastructure failures as conversation starters. "Hey girl, did you also spend three hours refreshing your dashboard in existential dread?" Romance is DEAD and we killed it with status pages and incident reports. But honestly? If someone brought up that Cloudflare crash on a first date, I'd probably marry them on the spot because at least we'd have something real to talk about instead of pretending we enjoy hiking.

It Happened Again
Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend
16 days ago 260.9K views 2 shares
It Happened Again
Ah yes, the classic "workplace safety sign" energy. You know that feeling when your entire infrastructure has been humming along smoothly for over two weeks? That's when you start getting nervous. Because Cloudflare going down isn't just an outage—it's a global event that takes half the internet with it. The counter resetting to zero is the chef's kiss here. It's like those factory signs that say "X days without an accident" except this one never gets past three weeks. And the best part? There's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Your monitoring alerts are screaming, your boss is asking questions, and you're just sitting there like "yeah, it's Cloudflare, not us." Then you watch the status page refresh every 30 seconds like it's going to magically fix itself. Pro tip: When Cloudflare goes down, just tweet "it's not DNS" and wait. That's literally all you can do.

Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past
Devops Webdev Networking Programming Backend
17 days ago 275.7K views 0 shares
Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past
Cloudflare going down has become the developer's equivalent of "my dog ate my homework" - except it's actually true about 40% of the time. The other 60% you're just on Reddit. The beautiful thing about Cloudflare outages is they're the perfect scapegoat. Your code could be burning down faster than a JavaScript framework's relevance, but if Cloudflare has even a hiccup, you've got yourself a get-out-of-jail-free card. Boss walks by? "Can't deploy, Cloudflare's down." Standup meeting? "Blocked by Cloudflare." Missed deadline? You guessed it. The manager's response of "Oh. Carry on." is peak resignation. They've heard this excuse seventeen times this quarter and honestly, they're too tired to verify. When a single CDN provider has enough market share to be a legitimate excuse for global productivity loss, we've really built ourselves into a corner haven't we?

It Happened Again
Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend
18 days ago 219.7K views 0 shares
It Happened Again
When you've been riding that sweet 17-day streak of Cloudflare stability and suddenly wake up to half the internet being down. Again. Nothing quite like that sinking feeling when your perfectly working app gets blamed for being broken, but it's actually just Cloudflare taking a nap and bringing down a solid chunk of the web with it. The best part? Your non-tech manager asking "why is our site down?" and you have to explain that no, it's not your code this time—it's literally the infrastructure that's supposed to protect you from going down. The irony is chef's kiss. Pro tip: Keep a "Days Since Last Cloudflare Outage" counter in your Slack. It's like a workplace safety sign, but for the modern web.

Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room
Devops Networking Backend Cloud
18 days ago 203.3K views 0 shares
Sir, Another Update Has Hit The Server Room
Cloudflare updates have achieved 9/11 status in the IT world. Every time they push an update, half the internet goes down and you're just standing there watching your monitoring dashboard light up like a Christmas tree. The priest performing last rites on the server infrastructure is honestly the most accurate representation of a sysadmin's emotional state during a CDN outage. At least when your own servers crash, you can blame yourself. When Cloudflare goes down, you get to explain to your boss why the entire internet is broken and no, you can't just "restart the cloud."

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Is Cloud Flare Down Again
Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend
18 days ago 179.7K views 0 shares
Is Cloud Flare Down Again
You know your infrastructure is in great hands when Cloudflare goes down more often than your college roommate's commitment to leg day. The kid pointing at the 500 error is every developer frantically refreshing isitdownrightnow.com, while the teacher represents your boss who's seen this exact presentation seven weeks in a row. "It's not our code, it's Cloudflare!" becomes the most overused excuse in standup meetings. Plot twist: sometimes it actually IS Cloudflare, and you get to feel vindicated for approximately 3 minutes before realizing half the internet is down with you.

Cloudflare Couldn't Recover At This
Networking Webdev Devops Programming Cloud
23 days ago 270.9K views 0 shares
Cloudflare Couldn't Recover At This
When your pickup line is literally just recounting global infrastructure failures, you know you've reached peak developer romance. Bringing up that time half the internet went down is apparently the new "Do you come here often?" The girl's reaction says it all—she's either genuinely impressed that someone else was also refreshing their status page every 30 seconds during the outage, or she's plotting her escape route. Either way, this conversation is going better than Cloudflare's uptime that day. Pro tip: If mentioning DNS failures gets you this kind of response, you've found your soulmate. Time to move on to discussing your favorite HTTP status codes on the second date.

Down The Drain We Go
AWS AI Networking Devops Azure
26 days ago 294.4K views 0 shares
Down The Drain We Go
Picture the internet as a beautiful, fragile ecosystem held together by duct tape and prayer. Now watch it spiral down the drain because literally EVERYTHING depends on AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare. One Cloudflare outage? Half the internet goes dark. AWS decides to take a nap? Your startup, your bank, your streaming service, and probably your smart toaster all scream in unison. The center of this glorious death spiral? "Dead internet" – because when these cloud giants sneeze, the entire digital world catches pneumonia. The cherry on top? That little "first major LLM deployed" at the start of the spiral, suggesting AI might've kicked off this beautiful cascade of chaos. And there you are, helplessly watching your carefully architected microservices get flushed along with everyone else's infrastructure. Single point of failure? Never heard of her! Welcome to modern cloud architecture where "distributed systems" somehow all route through the same three companies. Redundancy is just a fancy word we use in meetings to feel better about ourselves.

Last Time For Sure
Cloud Webdev Networking Devops Backend
26 days ago 239.7K views 0 shares
Last Time For Sure
That one kid in class who discovers status monitoring sites and suddenly becomes the herald of every Cloudflare outage. Seven weeks straight. At some point the teacher's just wondering if maybe, just maybe, the kid's router is the actual problem. But no—Cloudflare really does go down that often, and now everyone knows because this kid has appointed himself Chief Outage Officer. The internet's most reliable unreliable service strikes again.

Sir, This Is A Blameless Culture
Devops Agile Programming Debugging Cloud
29 days ago 162.1K views 0 shares
Sir, This Is A Blameless Culture
Ah, the classic workplace philosophy lecture meets fast food indifference. White cat is over here dropping DevOps wisdom bombs about systemic failures and blameless postmortems while Wendy's cat couldn't care less about your technical debt manifesto. It's that perfect moment when you're passionately explaining to your team why the production outage wasn't just Bob's fault, but rather a culmination of architectural decisions dating back to when dinosaurs roamed the codebase—and someone just wants to take your burger order. Truly captures the existential crisis of trying to implement DevOps culture while the rest of the world is just trying to serve fries with that.

Nice Weather We're Having... And By Weather I Mean Cloudflare Outages
Cloud Networking Security Devops
1 month ago 175.8K views 0 shares
Nice Weather We're Having... And By Weather I Mean Cloudflare Outages
When your dating life is as broken as your production environment... Nothing says "romance" like bringing up that time half the internet went down because someone pushed a bad config. Developers really think discussing major outages is an acceptable substitute for small talk. Next up: "So... did you hear about that Log4j vulnerability? Wild stuff."