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Cloudflare\u2019s routine maintenance spiraled into an unexpected outage on Friday, briefly knocking its dashboard, API, and some major websites offline. The disruption began during scheduled work in Chicago and spread just before Detroit\u2019s maintenance window. Services recovered within about 30 minutes, though Cloudflare later confirmed additional issues affecting Workers. 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