Author Responds to Criticism of Cloudflare Outage Analysis
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Summary
The article is a response to criticism about a previous analysis of Cloudflare's outage. The author acknowledges that their earlier piece was criticized for being shallow, reactive to preliminary analysis, dismissive of Cloudflare's robustness track record, and biased by hindsight. The author promises to address these four criticisms in turn, while noting that Cloudflare experienced a significant outage affecting large portions of the internet and has provided a summary of the design errors that led to the incident.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThis article has earned a lot of criticism for being shallow, reacting too much to a fast preliminary analysis, being dismissive of Cloudflare's excellent robustness track record, and being biased by hindsight.
I'll answer to all four points in turn:
Cloudflare just had a large outage which brought down significant portions of the internet.
They have written up a useful summary of the design errors that led to the outage.
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