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A misunderstanding of ______ brought down all of the Internet

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A: this in JavaScript
B: Wordpress plugins
C: Semicolons ;

Or suggest your own answer.

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Christopher Lai •

D: A CLI tool, true story, ask Amazon 😮

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Maurício •

Oh, now I'm curious. Where can we read about that?

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Christopher Lai •

It was few years ago. Here is the postmortem from AWS. aws.amazon.com/message/41926/

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Michael Lee 🍕 •

Hahaha I think I remember this.

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Rob •

D) Does the cat REALLY want that cheeseburger 🤔

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Arber Braja •

A bad regex rule can bring down the internet as clearly was stated during the last Cloudflare outage of 2nd of July.

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Exequiel Beker •

This in Javascript! Hahaha
I need those cards!

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Shannon Crabill •

Semicolons. Always, semicolons.

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