Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember, always, immediately, push new updates to prod, specifically right before you go home at the end of the day.

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  • xianjam@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ve all done it. …right?

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    • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s how we know not to do it anymore

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      Knowledge tells you it’s safe to push to prod in Fridays. Wisdom tells you not to. Experience raises your heart rate at the very thought (though, that might actually be ptsd)

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    • other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My favorite personal fuck up was when I accidentally locked myself (and literally everyone else in the company) out of the CRM I was working on by disabling the login pages and enabling SSO before I had finished setting up the SSO inside the CRM’s config, and it logged me out as part of the procedure. Whoops.

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    • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think most people have done, or been part of a team that did, something similar.

      At least most of the engineers I’ve worked with have had similar stories from their past

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  • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Double points if it’s friday

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Triple points if you’re going on a month-long holiday.

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  • wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is what CI is for Commit Incident.

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    • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And CD is for Commit Disaster

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  • silt_haddock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bonus points if you do it the day before you leave for vacation!

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, a true chaos wizard, I see.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  glad to know it’s not just me

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• ozoned@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The DDoS came from … INSIDE THE HOUSE!

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  • fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d be surprised how often DDOS can be an inside job.

    Glares at marketing department

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    • ozoned@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not surprised at all actually. I’ve done it. 😬

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Marketing is just the sabotage team in disguise

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally, a DDoS that even Cloudflare couldn’t stop

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CloudFlare stopped the DDoS by destroying their own servers.

    “I’ve won, but at what cost?”

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    • hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recently ran a session and wrote an internal blog post about why useEffect was a dangerous crutch that should be avoided wherever possible. This was due to complicated logic and unexpected interaction bugs.

  This is a little different but I still feel vindicated.

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  • Awkwardparticle@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are correct, useEffect can be dangerous if you don’t know exactly what you are doing. I would go so far as to say that most people use it incorrectly. This includes myself, I am not great at using React and end up using it in the wrong places, which according to a colleague, it should just be avoided if possible.

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• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clownflare staying true to its name.

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• garretble@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember: You might not need an effect

  react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect

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