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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. So…

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. Pe…

I also agree that drug misuse should be a capital offence, without due process.

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 satisfact…

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 containe…

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 th…

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 does…

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 the…

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 u…

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.

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) a…

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/Dev…

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 mo…

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 …

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 …

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. Se…

Precisely this, thank you.

We do offer an API - the scrapers are trying to circumvent using that, presumably.

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 prese…