React caused an outage for Cloudflare?

TLDR; they didn't use react query

ddos prevention company ddos'ed themselves due to bad react code funniest shit i have heard in a while

I hate the fact that they tried pointing blame on the web dev team. Just shows they have bigger organizational / management problems they need to fix first.

They didn't blame useEffect, it's clear that it's their own admission of fault. they said "we mistakenly included a problematic object in the dependency array" not, "react forced us to put that object.

Both the frontend and backend code were problematic here. I figure they preferred to have the frontend take the fall because they didn't want to go into details of their backend code for security reasons. That said, there are many things wrong here. What the hell was this response? If they noticed a lot of failures right after they deployed the new backend, rolling back should have been the first instinct. This outage could have been 5 minutes long and they would have been spared a Theo rant.

Title of the video : Did Cloudflare lie? 30 seconds into the video : I love the fact they put out this public postmortem and are transparent about this.

Where do they blame React and useEffect exactly? They just explain what happened, right?

The Cloudflare dashboard is pretty shoddy right now and this explains why. The amount of layout shifts and loading spinners per page navigation is just ridiculous.

The react code is irrelevant. Their ddos protection failed. If it didn’t then the dashboard api calls would be harmless.

bro went nuts at the outro xD