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1. paradi+q5[view] [source] 2025-12-05 15:56:37
>>meetpa+(OP)
The deployment pattern from Cloudflare looks insane to me.

I've worked at one of the top fintech firms, whenever we do a config change or deployment, we are supposed to have rollback plan ready and monitor key dashboards for 15-30 minutes.

The dashboards need to be prepared beforehand on systems and key business metrics that would be affected by the deployment and reviewed by teammates.

I've never seen a downtime longer than 1 minute while I was there, because you get a spike on the dashboard immediately when something goes wrong.

For the entire system to be down for 10+ minutes due to a bad config change or deployment is just beyond me.

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2. dehrma+Tv[view] [source] 2025-12-05 17:46:10
>>paradi+q5
Cloudflare is orders of magnitude larger than any fintech. Rollouts likely take much longer, and having a human monitoring a dashboard doesn't scale.
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3. cowsan+mM[view] [source] 2025-12-05 18:57:43
>>dehrma+Tv
> Rollouts likely take much longer

Cloudflare’s own post says the configuration change that resulted in the outage rolled out in seconds.

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