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First reading of this is cloudflare doesn't pre-stage their router upgrades. Or, if this was just a config change, they exceeded some limitation that they were
by ghshephard 14y ago
First reading of this is cloudflare doesn't pre-stage their router upgrades. Or, if this was just a config change, they exceeded some limitation that they weren't aware of.
As a network engineer for small startups, I've made that mistake more times than I can count - but the excuse was always "no budget for lab gear to replicate our production environment" - I would think at cloudflare's scale, that wouldn't be an excuse that made much sense.
- caw 14y agoWhen you get to a certain size, there's a limit to how much you can pre-stage and test. Sometimes you just have to roll it into production and hope you didn't miss anything in the planning. That doesn't seem to be the case here, but it's possible.