Cloudflare × 9GAG
Cloudflare x 9GAG, stopping attacks and complaints at 150M users
30% cost savings on CDN bill
Constant fire-drills and downtime to zero attack-related outages
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Why it works
The story earns its Resilience tag by centering on a real crisis: a botnet that took the site down for a full day and a flood of user complaints that stopped only after the switch. The 30% CDN cost saving adds an Efficiency secondary layer but the headline and emotional payoff are about survival, not savings. The closing quote, zero frustrated-user emails as the best metric, is an unusually concrete way to humanize performance improvement without inventing a number.
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Use a negative metric as the north star: 'those emails stopped' is more vivid than any throughput statistic and costs nothing to verify.
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