If you’re waiting for the inevitable “this is why we shouldn't centralize everything”; this is that comment.
As much as I like cloudflare and easy to use stuff, lets be a little bit mindful of the blast radius of highly centralized services which are even more complex to operate due to the scale of the deployment and problem scope.
luckily this time its just administrative interfaces and supplemental services that assist in development and that hopefully aren't used in production.
People will defend cloudflare here with the old saying “Operating at scale is hard” but simultaneously holding the opinion that operating services themselves is equally hard.
I guess the argument is that outsourcing is easier, but then you are very much out of control.
“the internet” in its practical entirety going down becomes more possible every passing day.
As much as I like cloudflare and easy to use stuff, lets be a little bit mindful of the blast radius of highly centralized services which are even more complex to operate due to the scale of the deployment and problem scope.
luckily this time its just administrative interfaces and supplemental services that assist in development and that hopefully aren't used in production.
People will defend cloudflare here with the old saying “Operating at scale is hard” but simultaneously holding the opinion that operating services themselves is equally hard.
I guess the argument is that outsourcing is easier, but then you are very much out of control.
“the internet” in its practical entirety going down becomes more possible every passing day.