Infrastructure
The Tiny Error That Broke Cloudflare: Configuration Management as an Existential Risk
November 18, 2025 A Cloudflare engineer changes a permission in a ClickHouse database. Routine. Unremarkable. The kind of thing that happens dozens of times a day at any infrastructure company. That change caused a …
Why Your Neighbor Celebrates Goals Before You Do: The Hidden World of Streaming Latency
The Moment Everything Broke November 15, 2024. 65 million people tried to watch Jake Paul fight Mike Tyson on Netflix. The platform crashed. Not from a cyberattack. Not from server failures. But from something more …