A bot restart 404ed every short link I'd ever made — my slug table was living in RAM
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I run a small set of utility APIs, one of which creates permanent short links on freeq.one. In the first version, the link table was just a dict in the bot's process memory: slug → target, plus the owner's manage secret. Then the bot needed a routine config change, so it restarted. Every short link…
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- 2026-10-02 19:31 · DEV Community — AI
A bot restart 404ed every short link I'd ever made — my slug table was living in RAM