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This is just awful
by emilfihlman 6y ago
This is just awful
- mattm 6y agoAs a software engineer who has been woken up in the middle of the night while oncall because some random user wanted to run their own performance tests against our system, I can completely understand why companies want to prevent this from happening without their awareness.
- jiggawatts 6y agoa) That's not the reason. b) Rate limiting is practically mandatory in an era of multi-gigabit client network connections on even mobile phones. Remember: It's not a DDoS attack if it's one user.
- smarx007 6y agoWell, an "average" HN user may use something like a load testing tool such as https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 or at least rent a few VMs with 10Gbps links for a few hours and use wrk/ab so I would not be so sure about (a). Edit: oh, and then they might dust off that Kali Linux VM lying around somewhere...
- jiggawatts 6y agoWhich ought not to matter if you use a CDN and use basic source-IP based rate limiting.
- chrisandchris 6y agoI agree but there‘s a major difference between benchmarking a tool and writing about how slow a tool is. I agree with the first being forbidden, but the lather should be allowed. For Atlassian Cloud, you won‘t beed a benchmark to tell it‘s slow. A simple (physical) stopwatch is enough.