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>>meetpa+(OP)
What I'm missing here is a test environment. Gradual or not; why are they deploying straight to prod? At Cloudflare's scale, there should be a dedicated room in Cloudflare HQ with a full isolated model-scale deployment of their entire system. All changes should go there first, with tests run for every possible scenario.

Only after that do you use gradual deployment, with a big red oopsie button which immediately rolls the changes back. Languages with strong type systems won't save you, good procedure will.

>>uyzstv+6m
They have millions of “free” subscribers; said subscribers should be the test pigs for rollouts; paying (read: big) subscribers can get the breaking changes later.

>>bombca+K81
Free tier doesn’t get WAF. We kept working.

>>ectosp+eh1
Their December 3rd blog about React states:

"These new protections are included in both the Cloudflare Free Managed Ruleset (available to all Free customers) ..... "

having some burn in time in free tier before it hits the whole network would have been good?!