If a single regex can take down the Internet for a half hour, that's definitely not good -- for a class of errors that can be easily prevented, tested, etc.
The timing is unfortunate too, after calling out Verizon for lack of due process and negligence.
I'm sure they have an undo or rollback for deployments but probably worth investing into further.
They also need to resolve the catch-22 where people could not login and disable CloudFlare proxy ("orange cloud") since cloudflare.com itself was down.
The timing is unfortunate too, after calling out Verizon for lack of due process and negligence.
I'm sure they have an undo or rollback for deployments but probably worth investing into further.
They also need to resolve the catch-22 where people could not login and disable CloudFlare proxy ("orange cloud") since cloudflare.com itself was down.