Code Orange: Fail Small — our resilience plan following recent incidents

Published: 5 days ago (December 19, 2025 at 05:35 PM EST)

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Source: Cloudflare Blog

Code Orange: Fail Small

We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high‑priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last two global outages never happens again.

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