Umm point of order - If you're running a third of the globe's Web traffic through your servers and your company's regular service dies for hours for all of your customers, it's fucking newsworthy. It certainly was for the amazon outage last month, and cloud flare is yet another one of those major providers who are now close to core infrastructure as a piece of software for most of the Web.

I've been in tech and worked in devops for a while now. If something goes down for your company, do you keep quiet about it to your customers? Not in my line of work. You flag the issue and someone (usually the product owner/Manager aka a guy like me) presents an scr to the higher ups, or puts out a notification on some SocMed site that works over what's occurring and how long it will be until it's fixed. This is why most tech firms have a status page if they have any live services.

The fact CF borked its tech globally for its entire customer base for hours today is not a nothing burger to me. It was a highlight on the frailty of the net - give aws and CF a hard enough kick in the nads, and the whole Internet will collapse into a broken, squealing mess.

Also CF doesn't go down for all customers for hours a week. If it did, no one would use them. Hell, their cto probably would have been fired if he let that level of derp go out in his codebase regularly. I sure as hell would be kicking him to the curb if that were true and I was a CEO there. The buck stops with them, and last I checked Dane Knecht was still in charge of the situation. If he was presiding over a weekly omgwtf moment like this morning was in London for a few hours, he'd have been let go so fast that Elsa wouldn't finish the first chorus before he hit the pavement.