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3 articles tagged #Reliability.

The AWS CloudFront Outage That Took Down Canvas, Blackboard, and Hugging Face at Once

Cloud & Infrastructure/Reliability·Jul 24, 2026·5 min read

The CloudFront Outage That Hit Ten Services

A 3-hour-33-minute CloudFront VPC Origins failure knocked out ten unrelated services worldwide. The cause was a single-ingress design worth checking for.

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Cloud & Infrastructure/Resilience Patterns·Jul 7, 2026·6 min read

Retries and Exponential Backoff: How to Fail Without Making It Worse

A naive retry loop can turn a brief blip into a full outage by hammering a recovering service the instant it comes back. Here's how exponential backoff and jitter actually prevent that, with working code, not just the formula.

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The Cloudflare Outage of February 2026 — A Postmortem and the Architecture Lessons Nobody Tells You

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Cloud & Infrastructure/Infrastructure·Feb 28, 2026·17 min read

Cloudflare's February 2026 Outage: Postmortem and Lessons

A cascading config error bypassed canary checks in Cloudflare's Feb 2026 outage, hitting R2 and Workers for 4h37m. Real distributed-systems lessons.

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