Reminds me of a support ticket I had to investigate recently. Performance metrics were taking a dive and triggered automated alerts - average response time jum

Reminds me of a support ticket I had to investigate recently. Performance metrics were taking a dive and triggered automated alerts - average response time jumped from 200ms to 2000, 8000, and eventually began approaching 15000, at which point requests were timing out all over the place. At first I was wondering if my recently-deployed MR was responsible, but upon further investigation, it was from one developer on another team doing two very dumb things with their application prototype: - Constantly retrying the same query with no filtering and setting the maximum allowed page size - Sending massive quantities of small queries for specific individuals (50-100 per second) which quickly hit the rate limit, and immediately resuming after the rate limit expired Some developer outreach was required...