I Wrote a Recursive Lambda Function That Cost My Company Hundreds of Dollars

I Wrote a Recursive Lambda Function That Cost My Company Hundreds of Dollars(thenable.io)

4 points by tysoncadenhead 4 years ago | 4 comments

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.

groffee 4 years ago | |

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

tysoncadenhead 4 years 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.

throw03172019 4 years ago | | |

So other people don’t make the same mistake.