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Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down

Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down

Update: 2025-11-19
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53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now “more secure” because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/



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Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down

Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down

Bryan Lunduke