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Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by groundzeros2015 on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:11AM (#45981289)
Did you skip all the other context about the other systems that failed?

The problem was a query producing incorrect data. The crash helped them find it.

What do you think happens when a program crashes?

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Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by philipwhiuk on Thursday November 20, 2025 @06:49AM (#45991663)
> The crash helped them find it.

Barely given the initial impression it was a DDoS.

Although you can argue that's bad observability.

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