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>Currently that limit is set to 200, well above our current use of ~60 features. Again, the limit exists because for performance reasons we preallocate memory for the features.

So they basically hardcoded something, didn't bother to cover the overflow case with unit tests, didn't have basic error catching that would fallback and send logs/alerts to their internal monitoring system and this is why half of the internet went down?



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