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Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by slophater »

goalieca wrote: post #65
slophater wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

I’ve had a lot of problems lately. Basic things are failing and it’s like product isn’t involved at all in the dash. What’s worse? The support.. the chat is the buggiest thing I’ve ever seen.

don't worry, if it gets much worse the ceo will just throw all of support under the bus again. it will surely get better.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by ranger_danger »

arcatech wrote: post #68
argestes wrote: post #53

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I have many things dependent on Cloudflare. That makes me root for Cloudflare and I think I'm not the only one. Instead of finding better options we're getting stuck on an already failing HA solution. I wonder what caused this.

Do you not feel concern about you and everybody else deciding to put ALL of their eggs into one basket like this?

I would bet money that most people who use CF now are already hosting their endpoints at a single provider. I don't think most people care until it actually becomes enough of a problem.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by ranger_danger »

jsheard wrote: post #18
NinjaTrance wrote: post #8

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Engineers have been vibe coding a lot recently...

The featured blog post where one of their senior engineering PMs presented an allegedly "production grade" Matrix implementation, in which authentication was stubbed out as a TODO, says it all really. I'm glad a quarter of the internet is in such responsible hands.

Matrix doesn't actually define how one should do authentication though... every homeserver software is free to implement it however they want.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by sebmellen »

slophater wrote: post #46
atty wrote: post #4

I 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?

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 t…

Do you feel that Matthew Prince is still technically active/informed? I've interacted with him in the past and he seemed relatively technically grounded, but that doesn't seem as true these days.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by blibble »

slothsarecool wrote: post #80
pocksuppet wrote: post #76

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Lots of people who think they need Cloudflare don't. What are you using it for?

L7 DDoS protection and global routing + CDN, there is not a single paygo provider that can handle the capacity CF can, especially not at this price range (mitigated attacks distributed from approximately 50-90k ips, adding up to about 300-700k rps). We tried Stackpath, Imperva (Incapsula back in the day), etc but they were either too expensive or went out of business.

> especially not at this price range

pay peanuts, get monkeys

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by tallytarik »

otar wrote: post #50

Reliability was/is CF's label. It's alarming already. Too many outages in the past months. CF should fix it, or it becomes unacceptable and people will leave the platform. I really hope they will figure things out.

We’re still waiting on a solution for https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/391rky29892m (which actually started a month earlier than the incident reports)

In the meantime, as you say, we’re now going through and evaluating other vendors for each component that CF provides - which is both unfortunate, and a frustrating use of time, as CF’s services “just worked” very well for a very long time.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by Philip-J-Fry »

kgeist wrote: post #78

It's something we debated in our team: if there's an API that returns data based on filters, what's the better behavior if no filters are provided - return everything or return nothing? The consensus was that returning everything is rarely what's desired, for two reasons: first, if the system grows, allowing API users to return everything at once can be a problem both for our server (lots of data in RAM when fetching…

>allowing API users to return everything at once can be a problem both for our server (lots of data in RAM when fetching from the DB => OOM, and additional stress on the DB)

You can limit stress on RAM by streaming the data. You should ideally stream rows for any large dataset. Otherwise, like you say you are loading the entire thing into RAM.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by jacquesm »

boarush wrote: post #32
jacquesm wrote: post #27

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Bluntly: they expended that credit a while ago. Those that can will move on. Those that can't have a real problem. As for your last sentence: Businesses really do care about the incident reports because they give good insight into whether they can trust the company going forward. Full transparency and a clear path to non-repetition due to process or software changes are called for. You be the judge of whether or not…

I might be looking at it differently, but aren't decisions over a certain provider of service being made by the management. Incident reports don't ever reach there in my experience.

Every company that relies on their suppliers and that has mature management maintains internal supplier score cards as part of their risk assessment, more so for suppliers that are hard to find replacements for. They will of course all have their of thresholds for action but what has happened in the last period with CF exceeds most of the thresholds for management comfort that I'm aware of.

Incident reports themselves are highly technical, so will not reach management because they are most likely simply not equipped to deal with them. But the CTOs of the companies will take notice, especially when their own committed SLAs are endangered and their own management asks them for an explanation. CF makes them all look bad right now.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by lysace »

jacquesm wrote: post #24
lysace wrote: post #19

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It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.

They coasted on momentum for half a year. I don't even think it says anything negative about the current CTO, but more of what an exception JGC is relative to what is normal. A CTO leaving would never show up the next day in the stats, the position is strategic after all. But you'd expect to see the effect after a while, 6 months is longer than I would have expected, but short enough that cause and effect are undenia…

You can coast for quite some time (5-10 years?) if you really lean into it (95% of the knowledge of maintaining and scaling the stack is there in the minds of hundreds of developers).

Seems like Matthew Prince didn't choose that route.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by 3rodents »

sebmellen wrote: post #94
slophater wrote: post #46

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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 t…

Do you feel that Matthew Prince is still technically active/informed? I've interacted with him in the past and he seemed relatively technically grounded, but that doesn't seem as true these days.

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025215495142564177

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025221270061580453

Rather than be driven by something rational like building a great product or making lots of money he is apparently driven by a desperate fear of being a dinosaur.

Regardless of how competent he is or isn’t as a technologist, a leader leading with fear is a recipe for disaster.

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