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>>meetpa+(OP)
This is architectural problem, the LUA bug, the longer global outage last week, a long list of earlier such outages only uncover the problem with architecture underneath. The original, distributed, decentralized web architecture with heterogeneous endpoints managed by myriad of organisations is much more resistant to this kind of global outages. Homogeneous systems like Cloudflare will continue to cause global outages. Rust won't help, people will always make mistakes, also in Rust. Robust architecture addresses this by not allowing a single mistake to bring down myriad of unrelated services at once.

>>mixedb+Xv1
Would you rather be attacked by 1,000 wasps or 1 dog? A thousand paper cuts or one light stabbing? Global outages are bad but the choice isn’t global pain vs local pleasure. Local and global both bring pain, with different, complicated tradeoffs.

Cloudflare is down and hundreds of well paid engineers spring into action to resolve the issue. Your server goes down and you can’t get ahold of your Server Person because they’re at a cabin deep in the woods.

>>3roden+JF1
Why would there be a centralized outage of decentralized services? The proper comparison seems to be attacked by a dog or a single wasp.