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Post #7453, on Nov 21, 2025 in TG
Cloudflare Outage Sneaks Up Behind Your Weeks of Code Reviews and Stress Tests
Description
A meme using the famous photo of Jason Momoa sneaking up behind Henry Cavill on a pink carpet at an event. Henry Cavill, wearing a formal dark suit and walking confidently, is labeled 'Spending weeks in code reviews and stress tests to prove my code won't crash the app.' Jason Momoa, grinning mischievously and approaching from behind in casual dark clothing, is labeled 'cloudflare outage.' The meme captures the futility of meticulously testing your own code when an external infrastructure dependency like Cloudflare can take down everything regardless of your code quality
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My code passed every test, survived chaos engineering, and had 100% coverage. Then Cloudflare said 'hold my reverse proxy' and 502'd everything
Your code has 99.999% uptime, but it's deployed on infrastructure that has 99.999% downtime. It's the Schrödinger's Cat of service reliability