The self-inflicted denial-of-service (DDoS) attack

I was happily complaining reviewing some pull request, when the following piece of code make me shudder:

var unsent-messages = new List();

function log(message) {
    unsent-message =+ message
}

every (5 secs) {
    send-all(unsent-messages)
    unsent-message = new List();
}

Then it made me smile. I had seen a similar piece of code cause a major outage on a billion dollar company.

Outage 1

As all good outages, it all started with some network misconfiguration.

In this case, the network issue …

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