Open source package repositories face sustainability crisis
www.theregister.com
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

note to mods: this is an opinion article, but it contains a lot of newsworthy statistics and prose on Maven (Java ecosystem package repository) being used as a CDN

  • Aatube@thriv.socialOPEnglish
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    9 天前

    for context, the full sentence is “Throttling efforts led to “brownouts” via 429 errors, but patterns mutated, forcing a “Whack-a-Mole” game, especially since most consumption is headless and unnoticed.” so they tried to use brownouts to control it but it couldn’ t stop them

    • DeebsterEnglish
      1·
      9 天前

      Yeah ok, I guess that’s what’s meant.

      I’d be interested to know how the patterns changed - perhaps requests moved to IPv6 which made grouping request origins harder, or maybe too many unconnected users were coming from a single IP and getting false positives (leading to bad UX and support requests).