Third-Party Outages: On-Call Lessons From Q2 2026
Cloudflare just published its Q2 2026 Internet Disruption Summary, and the biggest lesson for on-call engineers is uncomfortable: most of the outages that ruin your week are not caused by your own code. Third party outages, upstream provider failures, cable cuts, DNS misconfigurations, and government shutdowns all produce the exact same symptom your users care about, which is that your product stops working.