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		ergocoder 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem which mean an unexpected behavior could go unnoticed for a long time. I'd prefer a loud crash over that.

karel-3d 25 days ago [–]

Well look at the failure modes in the original article.

In the original PHP code, all worked, only it didn't properly check for bots.

The new Rust code did a loud crash and took off half of the internet.

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