Cloudflare published a very good article exolaining how yesterday's outage happened.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
I encourage everyone to read it.
I also think people are focusing on that particular unwrap() too much, and not enough on a bigger picture: lack of fallbacks
Without fallbacks at the interfaces between different subsystems, there's nothing to stop an error in one place from cascading throughout the whole infra
Config parsing is not the only place where such fallback was missing
Wolf480pl
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2025-11-19 13:14:35 UTC
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