How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours

Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by cm2187 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:33AM (#17669797)

There is also a common sense problem. Not trying to play the blame game but the guy who ran a subtotal displayed on the front page by having to download every row in the database probably isn’t a great programmer. It’s easy to say don’t write bugs, but there are bugs and moronic design decisions. This to me doesn’t feel like a real bug.

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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by dmurray on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:35AM (#17670051)

There's a good chance this is true, but this can happen even with competent developers. One person writes the unoptimized function figuring it can be improved later, someone else assumes this must be cheap and drops it on the front page. Or there was meant to be a caching layer, that didn't work because of some bug.

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