Every region peaked at the same moment during big matches, so there was no quiet region to shift load to.

Spare capacity reserved in advance, per-region forecasts, and switching off non-essential background work in the busiest countries. Teams kept shipping code throughout.

A customer saw empty query results now and then, only when caching was on, and too rarely to catch in traces.

They studied the MySQL protocol and found the shared cache could store different bytes for the same answer, then fixed it before making MySQL support generally available.

Useful pages like product manuals often have few links pointing to them, so search crawlers miss them or waste effort on dead pages.

A pilot where Cloudflare shares signals about which pages exist and change, while OpenAI decides what to index. Page content is not shared for training.

Traffic charts suggested Russian bot farms went dark when Yandex data centres were hit.

An analysis of bot behaviour on Yandex's two networks: the search drop was mostly its own crawler, and cloud-hosted automation migrated to other providers.