On June 12, 2025, a significant portion of the internet experienced a sudden outage. What started as intermittent failures on Gmail and Spotify soon escalated into a global infrastructure meltdown. For millions of users and hundreds of companies, critical apps simply stopped working.
Feature flags shouldn't be lesson #1. If they failed to test a policy scenario, they could just as easily have failed to test all feature flag scenarios. How's that for unprotected code paths?
Feature flags shouldn't be lesson #1. If they failed to test a policy scenario, they could just as easily have failed to test all feature flag scenarios. How's that for unprotected code paths?
If they had used canary deployment, would it have prevented such a disaster?
What happened to using smartptrs to handle null pointer issues ?