55An internal agent ran overnight and spent four months of the team's model budget. Contain it and explain it.▼hardNewAtlassianSalesforceStripe2 replies◆ premiumA loop with no step cap has no natural ceiling, and runaway spending keeps accruing while you investigate. Stop the spend first, then find out what it was doing.Open full answer →
25Traffic spikes keep taking us down. When does CDN DDoS protection suffice, and when is it not enough?▼mediumNewCloudflareFlipkartRazorpay◆ premiumVolumetric floods die at the anycast edge; everything else reaches your origin anyway. The origin leak, expensive endpoints and unproxied surfaces decide whether a CDN is armour or decoration.Open full answer →
08Design rate limiting for a public API: what algorithm, where does it live, and what happens when the limiter itself fails?▼hard★ EssentialNewStripeCloudflareDatadogunlockedEveryone names token bucket. The scored part is the rest: drift between nodes, the 429 contract with clients, and whether your quota service should fail open or closed.Open full answer →
15One customer's batch job is making your interactive chat slow. Fix it at the serving layer.▼hardNewDatabricksSalesforceStripe2 replies○ sign inBoth workloads are legitimate and they want opposite things from the same GPU. Combine tenant rate limits with fair admission and measured capacity reservations; separate fleets are an option when shared scheduling cannot meet the targets.Open full answer →
