Comment by jsnell

I agree, but it's probably not just about being "able to" do it, but about what the incentives and pressures are in that organization.

Cloudflare apparently considers blog posts to be a key deliverable for many roles. Not just marketing or devrel but engineering too. That sets up a lot of incentives for slop. And then all you need for a disaster is a high trust environment with insufficient controls, which they probably have since the process had worked for a decade without an insufficiently reviewed article blowing up in their face.

Going forward there will be just a little bit less trust, more controls, and more friction that will make it harder to get a post out in a timely manner. It's just the way all organizations evolve. You can see from the scar tissue where problems existed in the past.

What I can't believe is that they haven't retracted the whole post by now, but are allowing the author to make an even bigger mess trying to fix the initial problems.