The Pragmatic Engineer Gergely Orosz • 11/20/2025

The Pulse: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem

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This article analyzes a significant 6-hour Cloudflare CDN outage that impacted major websites including ChatGPT, Claude, X, Reddit, and Spotify. It contrasts Cloudflare's quick and detailed postmortem with the less transparent reports from other providers like AWS, highlighting the internet's dependency on a few key infrastructure providers.

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