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A free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight
- newsbinator 6y agoDeveloper mistakes happen. I was once rescued by Edwin from Stripe due to a silly mistake I made. But this part caught my attention: > Google sent an automated email informing him that his free Firebase plan had been "upgraded due to activity in Google Cloud," and that this "initiated billing" for the project.
- Pick-A-Hill2019 6y agoThe ex-Googler reflected that he missed the possibility of pages that link back to each other, causing "infinite recursion." "Fail fast, learn fast with cloud is a bad idea," Chauhan concluded. Not much more to add to that than as noted in previous threads about this post, it is fortunate that he was able to 'reach out' to the right people at Google in order to get the bill waived.