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by ebbp 3y ago
Generally these limits exist so customers don’t accidentally spend more than they intend to — e.g. implementing a sort of infinite loop where Lambdas call each other constantly. Sounds implausible but I’ve seen that more than once!
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by ebbp 3y ago
In principle I agree with this, but do feel this is said more readily about Cloudflare than other companies it could said about - such as Amazon (via AWS), Google and Microsoft. Perhaps my own mental model is wrong, but I see them as a cred
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by ebbp 4y ago
I also agree that drug misuse should be a capital offence, without due process.
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by ebbp 4y ago
You might enjoy the SRE path, or other closely-associated roles. Being naturally apt at debugging / optimising systems is a huge asset for us, and you might find a lot of satisfaction that way.
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by ebbp 4y ago
Not from the company but we do something similar with opentelemetry. It’s true, because you pay for the total allocation of CPU/memory on Fargate, so you can add a sidecar container into that total allocation with a small deduction fro
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by ebbp 4y ago
This can be true, but I would argue not always. Some DevOps teams work in the old mode of “throwing code over to Ops to run” - this isn’t what DevOps intended, but happens. When they work well, they’re doing things like authoring reusable (
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by ebbp 4y ago
Bit disingenuous to credential Tommy Robinson as a “citizen journalist”, given he’s notoriously the face of a far-right organisation and is a convicted, violent criminal. That doesn’t mean he should have his speech curtailed, but does warra
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by ebbp 4y ago
Well they wouldn’t need to do that, because you’re already pointing them at your IP, right? Cloudflare are providing the service they say they are, it’s the customer’s fault if they don’t understand basic best practice.
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by ebbp 4y ago
As someone on the “buy side” of Cloudflare-like services, that’s not how it works. How could a third party like Cloudflare protect my unprotected IP address? A very basic part of using a CDN/DDOS protection product is not allowing ra
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by ebbp 4y ago
It’s a different team, with a different skillset, that would be responsible for that. Big companies can focus on more than one thing at a time.
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by ebbp 5y ago
My partner works in buying for physical retail (caveats: nothing to do with software, also she’s generally worked mid market and above, rather than anything high volume/low cost) and I believe _margin_ is often 30-60%, or a range simil
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by ebbp 5y ago
It’d be interesting to know - what are the expectations made of you? In this environment, I’d expect there to be dedicated support for teams operating their services - i.e. SRE/DevOps/Platform teams who should be looking to abstra
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by ebbp 5y ago
I’d guess it’s not the usage of a VPN that has triggered this, but rather a new account immediately presenting multiple IP addresses. I’d guess that would trigger abuse flags at most places (especially from known VPN IP addresses which tend
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by ebbp 5y ago
I don’t really think “serverless” is supposed to mean “no servers are involved in hosting your code”. It really is meant to mean that you/your engineers do not need to worry about servers, because as you’ve said, you don’t need to worr
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by ebbp 5y ago
To be clear, they did “damage” was to our bottom line. Most sites don’t capacity plan for random cliff walls of 2-10x traffic (clearly we should!). We’re scalable enough to handle that traffic after a period, but a) it caused intermittent p
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by ebbp 5y ago
My point was more that we can accept with, and live with, scrapers but expect some minimal level of consideration if you’re going to abuse our very expensively gathered dataset. Sending us 10x daily traffic so you can scrape quicker than th
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by ebbp 5y ago
Precisely this, thank you.
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by ebbp 5y ago
We do offer an API - the scrapers are trying to circumvent using that, presumably.
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by ebbp 5y ago
Having spent a week battling a particularly inconsiderate scraping attempt, I’m quite unsurprised by the juvenile tone and fairly glib approach to the ethics of bots/scraping presented by the piece. For the site I work for, about 20-30