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Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] 2 points 11 months ago

If you have reasonable practices, git blame will show you the original ticket, a link to the code review, and relevant information about the change.

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