[dkyc]

These engineering insights were not worth the 16 seconds load time this website took.

It's extremely easy, and correspondingly valueless, to ask all kinds of "hard questions" about a system 24h after it had a huge incident. The hard part is doing this appropriately for every part of the system before something happens, while maintaining the other equally rightful goals of the organizations (such as cost-efficiency, product experience, performance, etc.). There's little evidence that suggests Cloudflare isn't doing that, and their track record is definitely good for their scale.

[raincole]

Every engineer has this phase when you're capable enough to do something at small scale, so you look at the incumbents, who are doing the similar thing but at 1000x scale, and wonder how they are so bad at it.

Some never get out of this phase though.