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My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack

few years ago, my cat gave me my most memorable middle of the night software engineering incident. I was working at a startup, and we didn’t have a formal on-call rotation yet.

A few years ago, my cat gave me my most memorable middle of the night software engineering incident. That was a deliberate decision, since being on-call is painful, and the team was good about just collectively keeping an eye out for urgent alerts. Our monitoring dashboard showed a massive number of requests coming from many IP addresses that were associated with different countries.

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