AkaSci 🛰
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Downdetector is up now (for me at least). It shows outage reports spiking up again at X, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Spotify, AWS, ...
https://downdetector.com/
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AkaSci 🛰️@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
Cloudflare has a long blog post summarizing the root cause of the outages today.
It was triggered by a change to a database systems' permissions which caused it to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by their Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size.
The software that read this file "panic'd" since the file contained more objects than a predefined limit of 200.
"Don't panic" should be a reqment for real-time sw!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
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