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Exciting news: I’m introducing The Pragmatic Summit.
Four years ago, I began The Pragmatic Engineer as a small newsletter focused on topics for engineers and leaders at Big Tech and startups. Now, it has reached over one million readers and includes a podcast as well.
One thing missing has been meeting in person. For engineers, leaders, and founders wanting to connect and learn from each other, that changes now:
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Hope to see many of you there!
Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem
On Tuesday, an outage on Cloudflare’s CDN took thousands of sites offline for 6 hours, affecting platforms like:
- ChatGPT and Claude
- Canva, Dropbox, Spotify,
- Uber, Coinbase, Zoom
- X and Reddit
In a similar case, AWS’s recent outage led Elon Musk to highlight X’s dependency on Cloudflare, noting that a Cloudflare failure impacted X during this recent outage.
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