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Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' (techcrunch.com)
submitted 5 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social 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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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

‘A bad config file nearly kills the Internet’ club

There's no such thing as bad data, only shitty code to create it or ingest it, and bad testing that failed to detect the shitty code. The overflow of the magic config-file size threw an exception, and there was no handler for that? Jeez Louise.

And as for unhandled exceptions, you'd think static analysis would have detected that.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Someone should make a programming language like Rust, but that doesn't crash.

/s