Avoid Using Regular Expressions!

If you think Regex are always useful and be used in most cases to solve your engineering problems, well, after watching this video, you'd think twice before using a regular expression again in your codebase.
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⭐ Timestamps ⭐
00:00 Intro
00:45 Stack Overflow Outage
01:27 Cloudflare Outage
02:17 Regex Backtracking problem
05:41 Regex Denial of Service (ReDOS)
06:30 Simple Regex to crush an Nodejs Server
08:38 ReDOS in npm libraries downloaded by millions!
12:07 Taking a Nodejs Server down with one HTTP Request!
15:00 How to avoid ReDOS
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[@lqhuy]

thank you, awesome videos

[@georgeb8637]

3:04 - exponential matches issue 5:31 - debugger

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[@PS3PCDJ]

RegEx, the bane of everyone's existence

[@eclypze_]

Great video! Also, what is the website/app you are using for testing API ?

[@CoderOne]

Postman

[@case6339]

I always knew regex was some kind of evil voodoo magic haha. That's the kind of content I really like.

[@cholasimmons]

How old are your servers 🙄

[@devnarula6733]

"I am gonna leave you the link down the description below so you can read and actually know how to fix your regular expression"

[@NickMaovich]

Title is clickbait and should be "Avoid Using Dumb Regular Expressions"

[@Ornithopter470]

That's most regex.