Cloudflare outage and infrastructure as code
Last Tuesday (Nov 18, 2025), 20% of the internet was "down" due to some proxy issue on Cloudflare.
skeeled was affected by this. João (our Quality Control Analyst) asked me if I broke our non-production environment (again). Soon after, we received a message from Eric (our Head of Customer Success) that some clients were experiencing issues.
Quickly we noticed something that had never happened to us, Cloudflare was down! The Cloudflare dashboard was also down, but we disabled the proxy feature in our config as code and the API was working, mitigating the issue.
Within minutes, our clients were able to use our application without Cloudflare as a middleman, which increased our load a bit. Sorry for not giving our clients some slack!
Things like these happen to all companies: Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, OVH, Scaleway... How it's handled and communicated shows their true value.
