World Big Tech Debt tour 2025!

20.10.2025 AWS
29.10.2025 Azure
18.11.2025 CloudFlare

Yet again I will point out that because "enterprise web development" is cargo-culting these days, a single website might rely on multiple gigantic "cloud" providers at the same time.

We know these exist because when Azure was down, some were blaming CloudFlare. 🤡

There are only so many of these gigantic providers. So if a website relies on CloudFlare, AWS, and Azure simultaneously, over the last month it would have been dead in the water on three different occasions, for hours on end. 👀

You can't be DDoSed if your site is down!

#CloudFlare

> the root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare’s services
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Who would win?

#CloudFlare

Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

Cloudflare is down, causing many websites and big platforms to go dark.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

• one of the largest tech infrastructure providers (0%, 1 vote)
• a single chonky file (99%, 127 votes)