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  1. 01Cloudflare · performance

    Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

    Following physical strikes on Yandex data centers, overall HTTP traffic from the network dropped significantly, leading to speculation that malicious bot farms had been disabled. However, traffic analysis revealed that search crawling simply decreased while malicious automation quickly migrated to other hosting providers with identical fingerprints. Consequently, overall malicious bot traffic remained flat, demonstrating that network disruptions do not stop portable automated workloads.

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  2. 02Cloudflare · postmortem

    Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug

    During the beta of MySQL support for Hyperdrive, engineers investigated rare empty query responses and connection hangs occurring in 0.001% of requests. They discovered that sharing the data center cache between client and endpoint nodes caused protocol capability mismatches when translating MySQL wire messages. The team resolved the issue by standardizing the cache to always store responses encoded with canonical Hyperdrive capabilities.

    DEPTH ■■■■■9 min read11 days ago

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