How Cloudflare Built Resilience: Lessons from Their Infrastructure Overhaul

How Cloudflare Built Resilience: Lessons from Their Infrastructure Overhaul When a single misconfiguration can cascade across a global CDN and take down customer traffic, every deployment becomes a high-stakes decision. Cloudflare recently completed a massive push to make their infrastructure fundamentally more resilient—and their approach offers critical lessons for anyone operating at scale. The Problem: Risk Concentrates in Configuration Most infrastructure incidents don't happen because of h