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Especially if you’re running powerful server-class hardware and great connectivity to the Internet.

^ So much this. From the assumption of malicious activity (which is a far leap given such a predictable pattern of calls), to bragging about “server-class hardware” and “great connectivity”, this doesn’t seem like a super solid setup.

In before “it’s just one guy”: there are a thousand ways to solve this that are not expensive or complicated.

Should the offending party have been a better consumer? Yes.

Is it fair to entirely blame the user versus implementing additional caches and safeguards to make it an annoyance and not the end of the world emergency GMP is making it out to be? Definitely not.

Hyperbole never ceases to amaze me. On one hand, I know how wasteful "CI" systems are. We offer a docker image from a custom docker registry. Since we started offering it 3 years ago, we've had 1 billion pulls. 990 million pulls were from CI systems. But to claim that the operator of those CI systems is "attacking" us would be pretty bizarre. Though bizarre seems to govern online discourse when it comes to most things

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