Uber Eats, PayTM and Free Food: What Happened?
Anyone could order free food on UberEats for a weekend in 2019. Years later, I can finally share what really happened behind the scenes.
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00:00 - Intro
02:10 - What happened?
05:00 - On HTTP status codes
07:10 - The change
08:50 - Failing open vs failing closed
11:05 - How we discovered the bug
12:50 - The fix and learnings
19:15 - What was the damage and who should pay?