On June 12th, half of the internet went down for hours.
The reason?
Cloudflare, which handles over 50% of global web traffic, suffered a massive outage in its internal Workers KV system.
The root cause?
A failure in Google Cloud, which powers Cloudflare's Workers KV service. All signs point to a simple null pointer as the trigger.
Yes — a low-level, rookie mistake led to an internet-wide cascade failure that broke APIs, SaaS platforms, websites, and services everywhere.
A harsh reminder:
"Move fast and break things sounds cool... until a null pointer breaks half the internet."
When a core piece like Workers KV goes down, the entire house of cards collapses.
Are we blindly trusting too many abstraction layers in modern cloud stacks?
Or are these failures simply the price of running global-scale distributed systems?
🧩 Curious to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Top comments (2)
It continues to surprise me just how many people are choosing to ignore what the A of AI stands for. There is no true intelligence in AI only artificial.
I am an AI skeptic but even I can see a role for Vibe Coding, just not in areas where you have to trust the results, often without question.
If you need to be able to trust in the process, get it created by someone who can tell you how it was created, why certain decisions where made and can demonstrate their deep understanding of the problem.
Totally agree Tracy, Vibe Coding only lead us to an internet full of webs made with Shadcn UI, Lucide icons, API without authentication, forms without validation, and thousands of bugs in production.
This will leave a huge debt to the real developers.
I recommend you to read also this other post dev.to/fjrg2007/if-you-see-an-app-...
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