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CLOUDFLARE'S LATEST OUTAGE PROVES DANGERS OF GLOBAL CONFIGURATION CHANGES

Cloudflare's most recent outage was caused by a seemingly innocent but global configuration change. The incident shows why the largest systems in the world will have to implement safer ways to roll out configs. Implementing gradual rollouts for all configuration files is a lot of work, so it doesn't make sense unless the stability of systems is more important than fast iteration. Smaller companies and products probably won't need to implement staged configuration rollouts because the infrastructure work slows down product development.

LET A THOUSAND SOCIETIES BLOOM

One of the recurring ideological themes of the last few decades has been the idea of creating entirely new communities, cultures, cities, and even countries. In this world of a thousand nations, people would be able to choose the communities that best fit their values. These ideas inspired Vitalik Buterin to create Zuzalu, an experimental pop-up city in Montenegro, in 2023. This post provides an updated picture of the space, detailing what Buterin has learned since 2023, and sketches out a world that the movement could be driving towards.

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