Reading Time: 4 minOn November 18, 2025, a large portion of the Internet staggered to a halt not due to an attack, but because Cloudflare, one of the world’s most critical Internet infrastructure providers, suffered a cascading internal failure. A database permission change caused a core configuration file to double in size, triggering widespread system crashes across Cloudflare’s global network. For users, the result was simple: websites wouldn’t load, apps failed, and critical services returned 5xx errors for hours. But behind this simple failure lies a deeper lesson about centralization, dependency, and how…
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