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Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.

“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago

Did they though? Aside from the "every outage is a latent bug" angle, from their postmortem it doesn't seem to me like they tried to blame it on anything but their failure to contain the spread of (and timely diagnose) the issue

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