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Cloudflare's worst outage since 2019 - Caused by a database query change

Cloudflare went down for nearly 6 hours on November 18 after a database query change accidentally made their bot detection system see duplicate data.

Here's what happened: Their Bot Management tool uses a machine learning model to assign “bot scores.” These scores are determined with a configuration file that contains information to help identify whether it’s a user or a bot.

Normally, these configuration files have around 60 entries, but a database query change started returning duplicate rows, which increased the number of entries to over 200.

The issue is that the bot management system has a hard-coded limit of 200 entries for performance reasons. When it received those config files with more than 200 entries, the system crashed across their entire network, resulting in 5xx errors.

Since Bot Management runs as part of Cloudflare's core proxy (the system that handles all traffic flowing through their network), when it crashed, it took down everything with it.

Cloudflare is now going to treat these internal config files like untrusted user input, adding more kill switches, and reviewing how errors spiral out of control.

Another example of how small changes can become catastrophic failures.

Google launches Gemini 3 and Antigravity IDE, and Nano Banana Pro

Google dropped three major AI products:

1. Gemini 3: Their new state-of-the-art model that claims to beat competitors across the board in reasoning, coding, and multimodal understanding, sitting just 1% behind Claude on SWE-bench for real-world coding tasks.

2. Antigravity: a new AI IDE focused on managing long-running autonomous tasks. You assign agents entire features and they plan, code, test in browsers, and iterate based on your feedback while you work on other things. It’s free right now with generous rate limits.

3. Nano Banana Pro: A new image generation and editing model that’s better at understanding context, generating text, maintaining consistency, and new studio-quality controls for lighting adjustments, depth of field, aspect ratio, and resolution.

Antigravity could be the future of IDEs (whether you like it or not) or just another Google product going to the graveyard.

Prisma 7 ditches Rust for TypeScript, and it's 3x faster

Prisma 7 has just been released and rewrote the entire ORM client from Rust to TypeScript.

This change resulted in:

• 90% smaller bundle output

• 3x faster query execution

• Significantly lower CPU and memory utilization

• Simpler deployments for Vercel Edge and Cloudflare Workers

Here’s the proof for you Rust lovers.

Other improvements:

• Moved generated code out of node_modules into your source directory (so file watchers actually work without stopping your dev server)

• Added a new prisma.config.ts file for dynamic configuration with tools like dotenv

• Generates 98% fewer types for evaluating schemas

• Generates 45% fewer types for query evaluation

• Full type checks are now 70% faster

• Prisma Postgres now uses standard Postgres protocols (works with TablePlus, Hyperdrive, Retool, etc.), and you can spin up a managed database with just npm create db

The entry-level job market is getting harder thanks to AI

I know a lot of you are getting tired of AI news… but unfortunately, this is important.

A new study of 5,500 companies across 22 countries found that

• ~70% of organizations are adding AI to their workflows

• Two out of three companies are hiring fewer junior employees because AI now handles the repetitive work those roles used to do.

• Half of these companies hired AI specialists last year, and 16% of them are willing to pay at least 50% more than normal salaries to get them.

Why it matters: Technology is #5 on the list here for job redesign. It’s already reshaping how companies hire, manage, and grow their people.

The message is clear and sad: adapt fast or get left behind, because automation isn't slowing down, and neither is the skills gap.

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