The Cloudflare outage was caused by a Rust ‚.unwrap()‘ panic, undistinguishable to the non-connoisseur from a segfault.
(Dont @ me with undefined behaviour on mythical systems you cannot name)
The effective difference between segfault and unwrap is that the former would have caused a wave of unbearable Rust smugness in my timeline.
This way, it‘s just a coding error. We all do those.💁🏻♂️
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
Stefan Eissing
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2025-11-19 06:27:16 UTC
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