A look into how a seemingly innocuous deployment + rollback to known safe code slowed down Cloudflare's entire global network
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - The Buggy Deployment
2:53 - Investigation
3:03 - The Outage
5:48 - The Root Cause
7:44 - Four Learnings
Notes:
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Sources:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/pipefail-how-a-missing-shell-option-slowed-cloudflare-down
https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-cloudflare-autonomous-edge-ddos-protection/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-mitigates-record-breaking-71-million-request-per-second-ddos-attackadd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJg9XkCvj-w
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7234
Music Credits:
Nocturnal by LEMMiNO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epmoV2HRs9U)
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