> Kinda scary to think Cloudflare could brick itself. Never forget that essentially all interesting systems may brick themselves and will at least catastrophic

> Kinda scary to think Cloudflare could brick itself. Never forget that essentially all interesting systems may brick themselves and will at least catastrophically fail every now and then. For all the sales pitches about "the cloud" providing resiliency, it's fundamentally centralizes an ungodly share of the internet onto a handful of failure points. What had been a frothy background noise of independent hosting and data center failures has become a global blackout risk, where worldwide operations break down and failures cascade through interdependent systems. On a business level, it's hard to care about that, as you're not going to be held to blame if everything else goes into crisis at the same time as you, but on a societal level, it's kinda f---'d. It's like moving all the agriculture onto the flood plain. You get maximum abundance most of the time, but when it fails in those inevitable floods, you at least better have kept some stockpiles stored uphill somewhere.