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_wmd ◴[] No.20422740[source]
So in response to a catastrophic failure due to testing in prod, they're going to push out a brand new regex engine with an ETA of 2 weeks. Can anyone say testing in prod?

The constant use of 'I' and 'me' (19 occurrences in total) deeply tarnishes this report, and repeatedly singling out a responsible engineer, nameless or not, is a failure in its own right. This was a collective failure, any individual identity is totally irrelevant. We're not looking for an account of your superman-like heroism, sprinting from meeting rooms or otherwise, we want to know whether anything has been learned in the 2 years since Cloudflare leaked heap all across the Internet without noticing, and the answer to that seems fantastically clear.

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1. kenforthewin ◴[] No.20422871[source]
It seems we're reading different blog posts. Under the "What went wrong" section there are 11 points, all with differing levels of responsibility and ownership. He did well to identify the collective nature of this failure.