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THE CLOUDFLARE OUTAGE WAS A GOOD THING

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A Cloudflare outage, caused by a bad config file, temporarily disrupted access to many popular online services. This outage may be a good thing, as it showed the dangers of internet centralization and over-reliance on a few key players. It's similar to COVID-19's impact on global supply chains, which led to businesses and governments diversifying supply chains more after 2020.