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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:21PM (#11490812)
> As I assumed it was kind of a corner case bug meet corner case bug met corner case bug.

I wouldn't really agree with that. There were two pieces of code designed to perform checks on new configs and cancel them. They both failed. Neither of those checks is a corner case. If you had a spec sheet for the system that manages IP blocks, that functionality would be listed as a feature right up front.

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