
Truth Bombs
Standard Deviation Podcast
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Google Tag Manager: Regular Expressions
Google Tag Manager has added regular expressions to its service. Regular expressions are good for picking up patterns in text, but they have a catastrophic cascading feature that can be quadratic. This is the reason why it's built into an API rather than as a native method. Google wants to prevent you from killing your server software by writing regular expression patterns that cascade into big performance costs.
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