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That's fine, but rate limiting is a solved problem at this point. They need to rate-limit free accounts and be realistic about their limits instead of letting t
by rand_r 2mo ago
That's fine, but rate limiting is a solved problem at this point. They need to rate-limit free accounts and be realistic about their limits instead of letting the system fail.
- Maxion 2mo agoProbably can't do that easily due to shitty engineering decisions in the past
- 4lx87 2mo agoOr inept managers. Manager: Why is the site down!? Engineer: Because it can’t handle this level of traffic. We can rate limit to the level we can handle to keep the service running. Manager: Okay, let’s do that! Engineer: Okay. Rate limiting at N req/min. Manager: I’m getting complaints we’re denying service to customers!? We can’t rate limit our users if they want to use it. Increase the rate limits. I’ve had this conversation more than once in my career.
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- chilmers 2mo agoFree (and non-free) accounts are already rate limited. The likely problem is that individual accounts/repos rarely hit those limits, instead the explosive demand is due to a massive growth in the number of small, individual projects being creatd.
- consumer451 2mo ago[dead]
- materielle 2mo agoThe person you were applying to said “rate-limiting” but I think they meant “load-shedding”.
- zzbzq 2mo agoThey were about to push a big change to actions pricing a little wihle ago and people revolted