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Episode 334 - Leap seconds break everything
Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there's a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here.
Show Notes- How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS
- Facebook wants to get rid of leap seconds
- Leap Smear
- Falsehoods programmers believe about time
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By Josh Bressers
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Josh and Kurt talk about leap seconds. Every time there's a leap second, things break. Facebook wants to get rid of them because they break computers, but Google found a clever way to keep leap seconds without breaking anything. Corner cases are hard, security is often just one huge corner case. There are lessons we can learn here.
Show Notes- How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS
- Facebook wants to get rid of leap seconds
- Leap Smear
- Falsehoods programmers believe about time
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