DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cloudflare
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Cloudflare posts 34% revenue growth, celebrates by slashing 20% of its workforce
CEO wonders aloud how many lives Palo Alto Networks has left. Spoiler: he's counting
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Internet outages spike in Q1 2026, says Cloudflare
Iran War largely to blame
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Cloudflare experiences latency issues at New Jersey data center
DownDector suggests X and AWS also experiencing issues, though AWS refutes this
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Drop in government-directed shutdowns for Q4 2025 - Cloudflare
But countries still saw disruption from cyclones, cable cuts, and war
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including DCD)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted
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Government-directed Internet shutdowns hit Sudan, Syria, Iraq, and more in Q3 - Cloudflare
Causes of Internet disruption also include damage to fiber optic cables and power outages
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Microsoft Azure reports issues, a day after increased latencies at AWS
None seem to be full outages, but have caused problems
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Cloudflare integrates cloud platform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Will be available natively on OCI
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Q2 2025 saw government-directed Internet shutdowns in Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama - Cloudflare
Follows a short global respite
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Google Cloud & Cloudflare outage takes out Google Home, Spotify, and DCD
One of those is worse than the others
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Anurag Reddy joins OpenAI infrastructure team from Cloudflare
Following Chris Malone who became OpenAI's head of data centers in March
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Zero government-directed Internet shutdowns in Q1 2025 - Cloudflare
Third time ever in Cloudflare's report history
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Cloudflare adds wave machines to random encryption system in Portugal
Company adds liquid wall of entropy in Lisbon
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Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile extend commercial satellite agreement to 2034
Elsewhere, Cloudflare reports that SpaceX's global Internet traffic has more than tripled this year
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Cloud market growth surges for fourth consecutive quarter - Synergy
AWS maintains top spot, Google and Microsoft follow
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US carriers working to fix network outages caused by Hurricane Milton across Florida
The Category 4 hurricane has caused widespread outages
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Cloudflare: Governments directed Internet shutdowns during exam periods in Middle East
Syria, Algeria, and Iraq all turn off Internet to prevent cheating
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Cloudflare suffers second power outage at Flexential data center in Oregon in six months
Learning from mistakes is good for uptime
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Cloudflare shares how the company handles server maintenance at scale
Secrets to smooth hyperscale operations revealed
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Cloudflare acquires Nefeli Networks to boost multi-cloud networking
CDN company launches 'Magic Cloud Networking'
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Akamai launches Gecko Edge cloud service
Embeds cloud features in its Edge network for jobs like AI inference
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DCD Podcast - How CDNs quietly took over the Internet, with Mark de Jong
Content Delivery Networks did a lot more than anyone expected
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Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years, will save $20 million
Joins the likes of Google, Meta, and Amazon in keeping kit around for longer
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Cloudflare blocks cyberattack on Brazil data center, but rips out equipment anyway
The company confirmed a breach happened last year, but says it protected its servers
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Cloudflare claims Flexential data center outage was behind service disruption
Alleges multiple failures and questions whether grid support scheme was at fault
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Cloudflare recovers from service outage after power failure at core North American data center
But most Cloudflare services were unaffected
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Cloudflare to deploy Nvidia GPUs at the Edge for generative AI inference - in up to 300 data centers
Will only support six models at launch