Cloudflare's Trust Crisis - December 2025 Outage and the Human Cost

Three weeks after their worst outage since 2019, Cloudflare went down again. On December 5, 2025, a Lua code bug took down 28% of HTTP traffic for 25 minutes - the sixth major outage of 2025. Beyond the technical postmortem, this episode examines the pattern of repeated failures, community reactions, and the often-overlooked human cost to on-call engineers.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - The Problem
05:00 - Solution Comparison
10:00 - Decision Framework
15:00 - Implementation & Takeaways

📰 NEWS SEGMENT LINKS:
• KubeCon Survey: How Platform Teams Are Adopting AI and IDPs
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• GitHub Actions workflow dispatch now supports 25 inputs
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12...
• Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Louis Ryan (Google)
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🔗 RESOURCES:
📝 Full transcript & notes: https://platformengineeringplaybook.c...
💻 GitHub: https://github.com/vibesre/Platform-E...

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