These guys always have the best write-ups. I aspire to write postmortems like they do. In fact, maybe my next context for a ChatGPT query will be “you are a member of of CloudFlare’s public relations team…”
All joking aside, it occurred to me that the vast majority of internet and even tech users know very little about DNS. For the longest time, I was in the same boat. After having been in a role where it was necessary to understand the record types and deploy DNS configs, I’m quite thankful I learned. Just remember…it’s always DNS.
I love the visualisations. It's really hard to make visualisations that are easy to read, look pretty and are still technically accurate. Cloudflare really excels at that.
All joking aside, it occurred to me that the vast majority of internet and even tech users know very little about DNS. For the longest time, I was in the same boat. After having been in a role where it was necessary to understand the record types and deploy DNS configs, I’m quite thankful I learned. Just remember…it’s always DNS.
edit: typo