Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.
“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.
This is the wrong take. Git blame only show who wrote the line. What about the people who reviewed the code?
Plus the guys who are hired to ensure 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
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.