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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. That feature file, in turn, doubled in size.

Isn’t cloudflare also offering bot prevention as a service?

Imagine if the number of bots suddenly increases by 2…

And already they are on their knees?

Muuuhahahahaaa…

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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Did you read the article? It wasn’t taken down by the number of bots, but by the number of columns:

In this specific instance, the Bot Management system has a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime. Currently that limit is set to 200, well above our current use of ~60 features. Again, the limit exists because for performance reasons we preallocate memory for the features.

When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to our servers, this limit was hit — resulting in the system panicking.

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