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.
There’s no such thing as bad data, only shitty code to create it or ingest it, and bad testing that failed to detect the shitty code. The overflow of the magic config-file size threw an exception, and there was no handler for that? Jeez Louise.
And as for unhandled exceptions, you’d think static analysis would have detected that.
Someone should make a programming language like Rust, but that doesn’t crash.
/s