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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

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698 points jgrahamc | 2 comments | 12 Jul 19 15:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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_wmd ◴[12 Jul 19 17:50 UTC] 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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dang ◴[12 Jul 19 21:36 UTC] No.20424743[source]▶
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, and please don't post in the flamewar style here generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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1. xxyeah ◴[12 Jul 19 22:13 UTC] No.20424993[source]▶
You are overreacting and protecting your preferred people. What is HN running on again?

If this is a personal attack, there are literally 10-50 of these per day in arbitrary threads.

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2. dang ◴[12 Jul 19 22:37 UTC] No.20425151[source]▶
That comment was breaking the site guidelines, quite badly in fact. We moderate comments like that the same way regardless of who or what they're about.

> there are literally 10-50 of these per day in arbitrary threads

If you can find cases of this where moderators didn't respond, I'd like to see links. The likeliest explanation is simply that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, so we depend on users, via flagging (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

> What is HN running on again?

I suppose I have to answer this or someone will concoct a sinister reason why I didn't. HN doesn't run on Cloudflare.