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by lima 2165 days ago
I read the damn thing:

- No performance benchmarks for rules despite using a backtracking regexp engine.

- No canary deployments, allowing the mistake to propagate to their entire network at once.

A mature engineering organization is very unlikely to make such basic mistakes, because it has in-depth peer review for both design and implementation.

Of course, their openness about the incidents is commendable and is the only reason why my company hasn't dropped them a long time ago, but it doesn't excuse such an easily avoidable downtime.