Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.
“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.
This is the wrong take. Git blame only show who wrote the line. What about the people who reviewed the code?
If you have reasonable practices, git blame will show you the original ticket, a link to the code review, and relevant information about the change.