>At the fact that they are presenting themselves as authorities on the incident, when they have no internal knowledge of what triggered the events, because they

>At the fact that they are presenting themselves as authorities on the incident, when they have no internal knowledge of what triggered the events, because they are not Facebook engineers. They provide an explanation of BGP that you can glean by reading virtually any other introductory explainer, and turn it into a chance to promote their own service. This is not an honest representation of the article. They talk about what their services observed related to bgp traffic from facebook. They are an authority on that. They talk about their dns traffic changes from facebook's outage. They are an authority on that. They talk about suspected causes, based on the observable data, and guess what, given they are who they are, this is something they are a subject matter expert on. "we saw a spike in bgp traffic from facebook followed by a bunch of route withdrawals. we think this could be a bgp configuration issue [given we took large chunks of the internet down 2 years via the same fuckup]" Is something in the subject matter wheelhouse of cloudflare, yes.