27 min
30 - How to Bring Down the Internet with Regex Randomly Typed
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JS and Lance chat about a couple of interesting and very public incidents of a regular expression unexpectedly causing major outages at well-known software companies. We walk through exactly how these incidents happened and discover how easy it is to write a regex with no time complexity guarantees.
JS and Lance chat about a couple of interesting and very public incidents of a regular expression unexpectedly causing major outages at well-known software companies. We walk through exactly how these incidents happened and discover how easy it is to write a regex with no time complexity guarantees.
27 min