Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 1 month agoSo the actual outage comes down to pre-allocating memory, but not actually having error handling to gracefully fail if that limit is or will be exceeded… Bad day for whoever shows up on the git blame for that function
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
This is the wrong take. Git blame only show who wrote the line. What about the people who reviewed the code?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Plus the guys who are hired that systems don’t fail even under inexperienced or malicious employees, management who designs and enforces the whole system, etc… “one guy fucked up and needs to be fired” is just a toxic mentality that doesn’t actually address the chain of conditions that led to the situation
AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
That should also come up in a reviews also. Not trying to imply one guy should get fired as a scapegoat, just talking from experience how much it sucks to know your code caused major issues.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you have reasonable practices, git blame will show you the original ticket, a link to the code review, and relevant information about the change.