One line of code that did cost $8,000
TLDRDue to a bug, our screen recorder app - screen.studio app kept downloading the auto-update file repeatedly, every 5 minutes for every single user. The update file is approximately 250MB. This resulted in 9 million file downloads and more than 2 petabytes (2,000,000 gigabytes) of traffic on Google Cloud.This screenshot might not look so scary at first, but take a look at the scale of it. For over a month, we generated at least 100Mib/s (a second!) and, at times, almost 1GiB/s of traffic (ever...
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