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> out all the ways this bug could have been avoided.

The most obvious one is setting up billing alerts.

Past a certain level of complexity, you're often better off focusing on mitigation that trying to avoid every instance of a certain kind of error.



Note that billing alerts protect against unexpected network traffic, not directly against bugs and bad design in the software. Update checking remains a terrible idea.




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