Cloudflare outage analysis highlights complex system failures, emphasizing the saturation concept and explicit limits in software. The incident illustrated how protective subsystems can inadvertently cause harm, leading to confusion during troubleshooting. The detailed public writeup by Cloudflare reinforced transparency in engineering. Understanding incidents requires assuming local rationality to learn rather than judge decisions made under constraints.
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/brief-thoughts-on-the-recent-cloudflare-outage/