Reading the incident report on the recent Cloudflare outage.

There is a snippet of Rust code which was where the error was that broke the system after trying to read a config file that was too big. And it was because of an `.unwrap()`. That seems like a crazy thing in production. Not even an `.expect()` or something. Just unwrapped the error and broke half the internet for a few hours.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

The Cloudflare Blog
@ehrenschwan
Detailed explanation of what happened @cloudflare . Perhaps the most reassuring thing is **The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malicious activity of any kind.**