The Pragmatic Engineer Gergely Orosz • 12/18/2025

The Pulse: Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again)

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The article analyzes Cloudflare's second major outage in weeks, caused by a global configuration change intended to fix a React security vulnerability. It details the incident's technical cause, Cloudflare's postmortem response, and the broader implications for customer trust and the necessity of backup CDN strategies.

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