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            <title><![CDATA[Cloudflare BYOIP Prefix Mass Deletion Outage]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On February 20, 2026, Cloudflare experienced a critical outage due to a buggy automated cleanup task, affecting 50,000 customers globally.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Outage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's 2:14 PM on a Tuesday. Error rates just spiked from 0.2% to 34%. Three enterprise customers are on the phone with your CEO. You have 60 seconds before someone expects an answer.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Monolith Decision]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You're the incoming CTO of FinScale, a Series B fintech processing $2M in daily transactions. The monolith is cracking under 10x growth pressure. You have a weekend to choose a strategy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scaling the Team]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Veloxa just closed a $15M Series A. The lead investor's condition: triple the engineering team from 8 to 24 in six months. Navigate the hiring pace, org structure, and management layer decisions that will define your culture.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Migrating a Monolith: A CTO's Decision Journey]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You're the new CTO of a mid-stage startup with a 500K-line monolith. Revenue is growing 3x YoY, but deployments take 4 hours and the on-call team is burning out. It's time to make some hard decisions.]]></description>
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