What a great and transparent analysis of the outage. No excuses, honest admission of mistakes, and even shared an internal chat. Many large corporations could learn from this.
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.The Cloudflare Blog
Henrik, Love Pro
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •I find this especially interesting, as they did advertise the FL2 got rid of complete categories of bugs when using Rust, related to memory safety, BUT... I think this advertised feature of Rust gives false sense of security for many.
As Rust seems to wrap errors to monads of sorts, and has the tools for correctness, but doesn't FORCE the programmer to handle those, is a big loophole for a language advertising safety.
valdeg
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •