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Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 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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[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If your website or service was disrupted by the Cloudflare outage, then you only have yourself to blame.

The Crowdstrike incident from last year was a wakeup call to abandon centralized services like Cloudflare. If you missed that lesson, then it is on you.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Anyone using any technology can miss something and end up in the same spot. I think the real takeaway is that there is way too much consolidation of our technology.

[–] groet@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

Yes but no. If you use a different service for the same purpose as you would use cloudflare you will be just as offline if they make a mistake. The difference is just that with a centralized player, everyone is offline at the same time. For the individual websites that does not matter.