A technical issue with Cloudflare rocked the tech world on Tuesday as a number of popular platforms including X, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and others came crashing down. However, this isn’t the first such incident where reliance on a major company led to other popular platforms going down, and there have been plenty of such instances this year alone.
What happened with the Cloudflare outage?
class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/cloudflare-cto-says-we-failed-our-customers-after-huge-outage-hits-major-apps-chatgpt-x-spotify-down-11763477671503.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Cloudflare CTO”>Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht apologised for the outage and confirmed that it was not linked to an attack. Knecht explained that the outage was triggered by a…

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