Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by auggierose on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:22PM
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"An engineer was assigned"
Nope. That definitely wasn't an engineer.
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by akamia on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:02PM
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Mistakes happen. I've never met an engineer who has never made a mistake. However, I have met brilliant engineers who have written incredibly complex software and have also managed to make some silly mistakes along the way.
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by _vertigo on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:49PM
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No true Scottish engineer would have made that error!
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by auggierose on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:47PM
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:-)
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by beckingz on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:57PM
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Real software engineers don't make mistakes?
Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts
by auggierose on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:19PM
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Not mistakes like that.
When you test features like this or caching a response with a JWT it can be very easy to default to the happy path or ignore the impact of a large volume of concurrent users.