How One Rogue User Took Down Our API
And how to prevent it from happening to you
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9 min readAug 10, 2021
It was 1 a.m. on a dreary December morning, on the cusp of a code freeze for the holiday season, when my team received the page. We were alerted that the API for our CDN product was experiencing a partial outage that was impacting all of our users.
