Earlier this week, X (or as some still call it Twitter) stopped showing posts or even let people post. ChatGPT threw error messages. Spotify went silent mid-song. Even McDonald's self-service kiosks displayed the dreaded "500 Error," leaving people staring at blank screens while their stomachs growled. The culprit was Cloudflare—the infrastructure company responsible for keeping huge swaths of the internet running smoothly—experiencing what they diplomatically called an outage caused by an automatically generated configuration file that grew beyond its expected size, triggering a crash in the software system handling traffic for multiple services. The whole thing lasted a few hours, but the disruption was highly visible and affected high-profile clients including X, Spotify and Zoom. A

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