Cloudflare does have test colos that use a subset of real network traffic for testing. It's actually the primary testing methodology, and the employees are usua

Cloudflare does have test colos that use a subset of real network traffic for testing. It's actually the primary testing methodology, and the employees are usually some of the first people forced through test updates. This release wasn't meant to go out, and the fact it did means it would have bypassed the test environments either way.