Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy (updated)
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage
What Jamie wrote
Actually caused by a regular expression change.
Unfortunately, one of these rules contained a regular expression that caused CPU to spike to 100% on our machines worldwide. This 100% CPU spike caused the 502 errors that our customers saw. At its worst traffic dropped by 82%.
Reminds me of that great saying…
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. (source)
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