Success Breeds Panic: shares the story of his first security incident
summary
An app suddenly spikes to 3,000 downloads a minute, Rackspace reports “servers melting,” and the team scrambles to rack physical hardware at $10,000 for a new box while a part‑time IT person fights SQL injection and API attacks that let the database be written and user state lost. Describes what was built (BlackBerry/iPhone/Android clients, custom API), what failed (no firewall, no API discovery, no autoscale), and what would have helped (containers, distributed cloud, ML to distinguish good vs bad traffic).
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