Dane Knecht
Chief Technical Officer of Cloudflare as of 2026, based in Austin, Texas. Writes on the Cloudflare blog about outages, resilience and how Cloudflare packages its products.
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Resilience work is best delivered as iterative improvements, not one big-bang change at the end.
Their wordsThese projects will deliver iterative improvements as they proceed, rather than one “big bang” change at their conclusion.
↗Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidentsblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe past two incidents have demonstrated that we need to treat any change that is applied to how we serve traffic in our network with the same level of tested caution that we apply to changes to the software itself.
↗Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidentsblog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsWhile the ability to deploy changes to our network on a near-instant basis is useful in many cases, it is rarely necessary.
↗Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidentsblog.cloudflare.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordswe are in the process of reviewing the interface contracts between every critical product and service that comprise our network to ensure that we a) assume failure will occur between each interface and b) handle that failure in the absolute most reasonable way possible.
↗Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidentsblog.cloudflare.com 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsInstead of panicking, there should have been a sane set of validated defaults which would have allowed traffic to pass through our network
↗Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidentsblog.cloudflare.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsAs a security company, all our tools are behind authentication layers with fine-grained access controls to ensure customer data is safe and to prevent unauthorized access. This is the right thing to do, but at the same time, our current processes and systems slowed us down when speed was a top priority.
↗Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidentsblog.cloudflare.com 6th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsWe believe that if you want to use something we offer, you should just be able to buy it.
↗Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyoneblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWe expect that requirement to improve how all products are built here, not just the more advanced capabilities.
↗Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyoneblog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 2 in this piece