A Byzantine Failure in the Real World

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Tom Lianza and Chris Snook. "A Byzantine Failure in the Real World." blog.cloudflare.com, November 2020. Archived at perma.cc/83EZ-ALCY

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A Byzantine failure in the real world | Cloudflare Blog

At Cloudflare, we are always on the lookout for Single Points of Failure. In this post, we explore the role a failure mode known as a Byzantine fault played in a a real-world incident.

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