​When Cloudflare goes down, the internet feels it. The recent Cloudflare outage wasn’t just ‘a blip’ - it was an unfortunate failure that took some of the world’s most heavily trafficked services offline. Cloudflare confirmed that a configuration update triggered a failure inside its control plane, specifically within systems responsible for managing global traffic routing, which translates to one change in the wrong place crippled Cloudflare’s ability to steer traffic across its own network, and then spilled into customer environments. ​Chris Jenkins, Director of Operations at Pocket Network, added, “You can't just offload uptime to a third-party provider, especially when you're the one being held ...