They made db change. They have effectively infinite amounts of real production flow data they can use to test changes.

In this case, the system failed because it was hard coded to 200 max tests but they added more. If they had tested against that it would've been found.

This is not an obscure rarely used feature. This is a key feature of what their entire service is built around. They are selling filtered/clean incoming traffic against very large production sites. Who thought it was a good idea to have a hard cap of how many rules could be applied in the first place?

This is very much "no one will ever need more than 640k" thinking.

The closest I've ever got to doing similar was using a numeric incremental dns naming scheme based on 3 or 4 digit names like web001-999 or service0001-9999 knowing that it wouldn't be a surprise if we ever ran out of names, especially considering we had a dozen servers at the time which could easily handle 50x the current traffic load. But a numeric naming scheme isn't a surprise when you run out. Long before that we changed to "datacenter-service-number" so web005 became dc3-web-005 giving us up to 1000 web servers per data center in data centers that didn't have space for another 1000 servers anyway.

But this secret hard coded db limit is simple incompetence and lack of real world experience.

Again, this is the very core of their business model. Yet no one knew anything about how their systems work. It wasn't a complex problem. It was a dumb hard coded cap.

I have also seen very complex systems collapse under their own weight. This was not one of those times.

What happened to slashdot? At one time this racist alt right trash world have been modded down to -1. But instead it's at +5 and This post is at -1. Trump voters are just plain stupid.

Seriously?

Even most of the shitty under resourced startups I was at had basic dev -> qa -> staging -> production environment life cycles in place.

This sort of failure is a result of sheer incompetence, bad systems engineering, and clueless management at all levels.

Outages? Yes, shit happens.

Preventable outages by huge critical infrastructure company in their key systems? Clown show.

Maybe it's because people already know or, at least, suspect NSA backdoors in Windows. The network gear is a moot point.

Her wife was giving him the cold shoulder.

The "Crash Axe" switch, turns off the obnoxious copilots :D

Cars can run for 20+ years with maintenance ... buy a 2015 car without any konneketed krap and take good care of it.

A "Disable all AI crap and stop pushing this shit already" switch would be more desirable.

Higher quality slop and approaching pink slip.

Idiots? Ai contraire!

If they had solved this years ago none of them would have jobs today.

They just need to keep bread crumbing it. In 30 years they'll tell us the whales also have sounds for consonant equivalents.

They probably did figure it all out generations ago, already have full blown conversations all day with whales, usually their take on the latest Taylor Swift album, but just aren't telling us that.

Longer than most think.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

-Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

"Harvard is a hedge fund with classrooms" - Scott Galloway

Are they watching Taylor Swift videos? Complete waste of time.

Are they watching history, science, and other documentary videos? Good use of time.

In general, though, we know from Covid as well as way back when I was in uni and took a few childhood development classes that human interaction is generally a plus and isolation of any sort is generally bad.

There are a small number of anecdotal cases of abused children "raised" in closets or otherwise 99% isolated from all human contact who needed years and years of therapy and training once rescued to advanced beyond basic animal functions.

Video in and of itself is neither inherently good or bad. It's just a tool which can be used intelligently or not which is why this study is so wishy washy about their own results.

Indeed, crime, corruption, FOMO, political distress and other abnormal life events do drive crypto. None of them things non-criminal normal people would "invest" in.

Sir, I salute your brilliantly delivered straight up hard sarcasm. Well done. Few can pull it off like that.

It's not just in Britain. All across the West, there's a shortage of native-born doctors. The expense and hassle of getting an MD is bad enough. Then you also have the modern stresses of being an MD (which in America, includes a highly litigious culture where doctors have to get maddeningly expensive malpractice insurance). The workload is huge, and the money is only good for the hyper-specialists now. The home-grown family doctor is an endangered species in the US, and we're addressing it in two ways: handing doctor duties to those lower on the chain, and importing doctors from the third world. Every single new doctor at my not-large Southern US hospital in the past three years has come from 3 places: India, Pakistan, or East Africa. This of course, robs those areas of badly needed doctors. And it doesn't really matter if your system is private or nationalized. Look at the ranks of doctors that staff your local services. You'll see similarities everywhere in the West: there's fewer of them, and they tend to come from overseas.