[sph]

Looking forward to a more decentralised global Internet, with packets being routed through alternative paths, so outages like these become a non-event.

I understand we do not have the technology for that just yet, and DevOps able to configure TLS terminators on their own are worth their weight in gold.

Hard to imagine how the Internet could ever exist without Cloudflare.

[renonce]

The Internet has been decentralized from the beginning. Now I don't want to claim that Cloudflare made something worse (at least it's enabling a lot of websites to exist without fear of DDoS) but the fact is that Cloudflare made it more centralized, as there are lots of websites that cannot be accessed without going through Cloudflare.

[belthesar]

I think you might have missed the joke on this one.

[joepie91_]

Honestly, the original post could have been a joke, or it could not have been. I regularly talk to people who seem to genuinely believe this sort of thing (on this topic and others).

[sph]

I am from an era no one was serious on the Internet, so we didn't need to add /s every time we were sarcastic.

In that era we also saw the last sysadmin configuring Apache with their bare hands without the help of Cloudflare.

[theideaofcoffee]

It's such a sad reflection of the state of the devops art when setting up a TLS terminator is considered a black art worthy of vaunted experts being paid huge sums. I've seen this descent over the course of my career, watching the profession go from low-level knowledge to being mere YAML-wiring monkeys, slinging shit over the wall to get functionality working just well enough to make it to the nEXt SprInT. The joke above aside, I think it will continue to get worse, and the outcome to overall stability reflected in that until it comes to a head and either people re-learn 'lost' skills, or the ball of bailing wire, gum and glue implodes more completely.

[TeMPOraL]

> decentralised global Internet, with packets being routed through alternative paths

> I understand we do not have the technology for that just yet

I looked at my router, remembered the term "packet-switched network", and wept.

[dylan604]

We have the technology. We can make him better, than he was. Better, stronger, faster.

[survirtual]

That technology is far too advanced, unfortunately. Maybe someday, packets will freely roam the cyber plains, untethered by the reins of single-point-of-failure gatekeepers. Until that halcyon day dawns, we'll remain humble supplicants at the towering obelisks of centralization, chanting incantations of redundancy and resilience, and laying burnt offerings of legacy hardware upon the altars of the uptime deities.

[barbazoo]

> Looking forward to a more decentralised global Internet, with packets being routed through alternative paths, so outages like these become a non-event.

It's not just packet routing though, many of their other products seem to be affected as well.

[lazydon]

Missing the /s I hope.

[sph]

As I said elsewhere, I come from a time everyone was fluent in sarcasm on the Internet, without needing disclaimers.