Code Orange: Fail Small is complete. The result is a stronger Cloudflare network

2026-05-01

8 min read

Over the past two and a bit quarters, we've undertaken an intensive engineering effort, internally code-named " Code Orange: Fail Small ", focused on making Cloudflare's infrastructure more resilient, secure, and reliable for every customer.

Earlier this month, the Cloudflare team finished this work.

While improving resiliency will never be a “job done” and will always be a top priority across our development lifecycle, we have now completed the work that would have avoided the November 18, 2025 and December 5, 2025 global outages.

This work focused on several key areas: safer configuration changes, reducing the impact of failure, and revising our “break glass” procedures and incident management.…