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		groundzeros2015 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem Did you skip all the other context about the other systems that failed? The problem was a query producing incorrect data. The crash helped them find it. What do you think happens when a program crashes?

philipwhiuk 7 days ago [–]

> The crash helped them find it.

Barely given the initial impression it was a DDoS.

Although you can argue that's bad observability.

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