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> I truly believe they're really going to make resilience their #1 priority now

I hope that was their #1 priority from the very start given the services they sell...

Anyway, people always tend to overthink about those black-swan events. Yes, 2 happened in a quick succession, but what is the average frequency overall? Insignificant.

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This is Cloudflare. They've repeatedly broken DNS for years.

Looking across the errors, it points to some underlying practices: a lack of systems metaphors, modularity, testability, and an reliance on super-generic configuration instead of software with enforced semantics.

I think they have to strike a balance between being extremely fast (reacting to vulnerabilities and DDOS attacks) while still being resilient. I don't think it's an easy situation

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