alt Hacker NewsI do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?
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Launching a new service every 5 minutes is obviously stretching their resources.
It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.
been at cf for 7 yrs but thinking of gtfo soon. the ceo is a manchild, new cto is an idiot, rest of leadership was replaced by yes-men, and the push for AI-first is being a disaster. c levels pretend they care about reliability but pressure teams to constantly ship, cto vibe codes terraform changes without warning anyone, and it's overall a bigger and bigger mess
even the blog, that used to be a respected source of technical content, has morphed into a garbage fire of slop and vaporware announcements since jgc left.
Cloudflare Outages are as predictable, as the Sun coming up tomorrow. Its their engineering culture.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Wait till you see the drama around their horrible terraform provider update/rewrite:
https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/...
It is not. They went about 5 years without one of these, and had a handful over the last 6 months. They're really going to need to figure out what's going wrong and clean up shop.