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BentFranklin on July 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy

Kind of funny that it was a regexp.

davidw on July 2, 2019 [–]

I'm reminded of:

"You have a problem, and you decide to use a regexp to solve it. Now you have two problems"

Although of course I'm just kidding and I'm sure that a good regexp probably is the right solution for what they're doing in that instance: they have a lot of bright people.

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