Comment by notepad0x90
1 hour ago
That means they engineered their systems incorrectly then? Precisely because they are much bigger, they should be more resilient. You know who's bigger than Cloudflare? tier-1 ISPs, if they had an outage the whole internet would know about it, and they do have outages except they don't cascade into a global mess like this.
Just speculating based on my experience: It's more likely than not that they likely refused to invest in fail-safe architectures for cost reasons. Control-plane and data-plane should be separate, a react patch shouldn't affect traffic forwarding.
Forget manual rollbacks, there should be automated reversion to a known working state.
> Control-plane and data-plane should be separate
They are separate.
> a react patch shouldn't affect traffic forwarding.
If you can’t even bother to read the blog post maybe you shouldn’t be so confident in your own analysis of what should and shouldn’t have happened?
This was a configuration change to change the buffered size of a body from 256kb to 1mib.
The ability to be so wrong in so few words with such confidence is impressive but you may want to take more of a curiosity first approach rather than reaction first.