The CloudFlare outage was a good thing
Outages like today's are a good thing because they're a warning. They can force redundancy and resilience into systems. They can make the pillars of our society - governments, businesses, banks - provide reliable alternatives when things go wrong.
I feel the same way, about the centralisation and the outages.
Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT by Richard Lawler
the query change caused its ClickHouse database to generate duplicates of information. As the configuration file rapidly grew to exceed preset memory limits, it took down “the core proxy system that handles traffic processing for our customers, for any traffic that depended on the bots module.”
My website is hosted on Cloudflare pages. It was down for a bit. As were a bunch of other websites - udemy, safari (o’Reilly) and so on.
It seems like a bad time for these cloud providers. First it was AWS, then Azure, then Azure had a DDoS attack and now this.
It truly seems like a matter of when and not if.
Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo - Slashdot
Cloudflare has announced its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser, an independent (still-in-development) open-source initiative aimed at developing a modern, standalone web browser engine. It's a project launched by GitHub's co-founder and former CEO, Chris Wanstrath, and tech visionary Andreas Kling. It's written in C++, and designed to be fast, standards-compliant, and free of external dependencies. Its main selling point? Unlike most alternative browsers today, Ladybird doesn't sit on top of Chromium or WebKit. Instead, it's building a completely new rendering engine from scratch, which is a rare thing in today's web landscape.
Interesting.