The CloudFlare outage was a good thing

Cloudflare's outage is argued to be a good thing because it exposes the fragility of an internet increasingly concentrated in a few providers. The article says a bad config file triggered a latent bug in one Cloudflare service, causing a cascading failure that left popular apps and web services inaccessible for several hours. It argues that the outage shows society assuming the net is always on, and that such warnings can force redundancy and resilience into systems. It draws a parallel to how COVID-19 pushed businesses to diversify supply chains, and concludes: "Embrace outages, and build redundancy."