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you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink

isn't technology beautiful

blog.cloudflare.com/details-of
youtube.com/watch?v=bu7PJoxaMZg

Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more.

blog.cloudflare.com · The Cloudflare Blog

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