My Simple Random Number Generator Went Viral (and Broke)
2025-02-01
Months after creating a simple random number generator website, the author almost forgot about it. Recently, it unexpectedly went viral, leading to a flood of visitors and various server issues: connection pool exhaustion, UUID parsing errors, and malicious requests. Through logs, monitoring, and debugging, the author gradually resolved these issues and added preventative measures such as rate limiting and character length restrictions. This experience underscored the importance of robust logging, monitoring, and metrics, even for seemingly simple projects.
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