Comment on OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor APIComments−CrowderSoup8yThe thing that impresses me most is how quickly OkCupid removed public access to that API.−rhizome8yEh, comment out a route and deploy.−recursive8yThat's all well and good for a tech demo, but things rarely seem to be that simple in systems as big/old as OkCupid. I guess this time, it was.−_asummers8yThat's only true if there was nothing internally relying on it.−Waterluvian8yWhitelist internals and deploy?It may be impressively fast or unimpressively simple. We won't know for sure.−_asummers8yAbsolutely. But imagine e.g. a mobile app that uses that API. That's a harder change to propagate. That's pure speculation though, as you said. We have no idea.−digitalpacman8yedge route blocking doesn't take a deploy−nikanj8yComment out and redeploy, fixing the other features is a lot less urgent issue.
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The thing that impresses me most is how quickly OkCupid removed public access to that API.
Eh, comment out a route and deploy.
That's all well and good for a tech demo, but things rarely seem to be that simple in systems as big/old as OkCupid. I guess this time, it was.
That's only true if there was nothing internally relying on it.
Whitelist internals and deploy?
It may be impressively fast or unimpressively simple. We won't know for sure.
Absolutely. But imagine e.g. a mobile app that uses that API. That's a harder change to propagate. That's pure speculation though, as you said. We have no idea.
edge route blocking doesn't take a deploy
Comment out and redeploy, fixing the other features is a lot less urgent issue.