[atty]

I do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?

[Icathian]

It is not. They went about 5 years without one of these, and had a handful over the last 6 months. They're really going to need to figure out what's going wrong and clean up shop.

[NinjaTrance]

Engineers have been vibe coding a lot recently...

[Ylpertnodi]

Typo: "shop", should have been with an 'el'.

(: phonetically, because 'l's are hard to read.

[lysace]

It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.

[jacquesm]

They coasted on momentum for half a year. I don't even think it says anything negative about the current CTO, but more of what an exception JGC is relative to what is normal. A CTO leaving would never show up the next day in the stats, the position is strategic after all. But you'd expect to see the effect after a while, 6 months is longer than I would have expected, but short enough that cause and effect are undeniable.

Even so, it is a strong reminder not to rely on any one vendor for critical stuff, in case that wasn't clear enough yet.

[dazc]

I wondered what happened to him?

[Cipater]

He's still a member of the board though.

[dazc]

Launching a new service every 5 minutes is obviously stretching their resources.

[Betelbuddy]

Cloudflare Outages are as predictable, as the Sun coming up tomorrow. Its their engineering culture.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[candiddevmike]

Wait till you see the drama around their horrible terraform provider update/rewrite:

https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/...

[slophater]

been at cf for 7 yrs but thinking of gtfo soon. the ceo is a manchild, new cto is an idiot, rest of leadership was replaced by yes-men, and the push for AI-first is being a disaster. c levels pretend they care about reliability but pressure teams to constantly ship, cto vibe codes terraform changes without warning anyone, and it's overall a bigger and bigger mess

even the blog, that used to be a respected source of technical content, has morphed into a garbage fire of slop and vaporware announcements since jgc left.

[sebmellen]

Do you feel that Matthew Prince is still technically active/informed? I've interacted with him in the past and he seemed relatively technically grounded, but that doesn't seem as true these days.

[goalieca]

I’ve had a lot of problems lately. Basic things are failing and it’s like product isn’t involved at all in the dash. What’s worse? The support.. the chat is the buggiest thing I’ve ever seen.

[__turbobrew__]

You know what they say, shit rolls downhill. I don't personally know the CEO, but the feeling I have got from their public fits on social media doesn't instill confidence.

If I was a CF customer I would be migrating off now.

[nanankcornering]

do you care that much about leadership when using a service? even I dont know gcp's c-level, aws's c-level, even vercel's c-level. only know rauchg.

i think i care much more about our SLAs (if any)

[a24446ff87]

GSD! GSD!! ship! ship! ship!

**everything breaks**

...

**everything breaks again**

oh fuck! Code Orange! I repeat, Code Orange! we need to rebuild trust(R)(TM)! we've let our customers down!

...

**everything breaks again**

Code Orangier! I repeat, Code Orangier!

[slophater]

amazing how my comment was flagged in 30 seconds... keep bootlicking