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by rovr138 3236 days ago
> It is a serverless issue because if you were using your own server, a mistake like this wouldn't have cost money.

We dynamically create and instantiate new servers based on load and if it's sustained for a while. Once it's up, it's added to the load balancer. Once the load of them goes down, it's spin down after it's spent some time idle (it costs to instantiate so might as well keep outside of the queue for a bit before completely removing it).

This all runs automatically. If we don't limit it, it's on us.

How is this not a problem with how he managed it?

> This is probably the most stupid thing I ever did. One missing return; ended up costing me $206.

He clearly mentioned it's his error there.