Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 21 hours agoNot really. Sometimes there are processes designed where engineers will make a change as a reaction or in preparation for something. They could have easily made a mistake when making a change like that.
I don’t think it was a bug making the configuration change, I think there was a bug as a result of that change.
That specific combination of changes may not have been tested, or applied in production for months, and it just happened to happen today, hence the latent part.
Yeah, I just read the postmortem. My response was more about the confusion that any configuration change is inherently non-routine.
123@programming.dev 20 hours ago
E.g.: companies that advertise on a large sporting event might preemptively scale up (maybe warm up depending on language) their servers in preparation for a large load increase following some ad or mention of a coupon or promo code. Failure to capture the market it could generate would be seen as wasted $$$