I Wrote a Recursive Lambda Function That Cost My Company Hundreds of Dollars (opens in new tab)

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4 pointstysoncadenhead3y ago4 comments

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I wrote a recursive lambda function that called itself over and over. Within a hours, we had rung up an excess of $600 dollars from the single function call.

groffee3y ago

Why would you want to broadcast to the world that you're an idiot?

tysoncadenheadOP3y ago

I'd like to hope that I've learned things. I'm definitely not the first or last person to screw something up, but I hope that this can be an encouragement to newer developers that even people with a lot of experience can make big mistakes and that as long as you use it as an opportunity to learn and grow, its going to be okay.

throw031720193y ago

So other people don’t make the same mistake.

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tysoncadenheadOP3y ago

I wrote a recursive lambda function that called itself over and over. Within a hours, we had rung up an excess of $600 dollars from the single function call.

groffee3y ago

Why would you want to broadcast to the world that you're an idiot?

tysoncadenheadOP3y ago

throw031720193y ago

So other people don’t make the same mistake.

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