Bug with `badges/name` endpoint

Question

Last night I had a programme running and it errored on the first call to the badges/name endpoint on the API, exact API endpoint call:

https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/badges/name?order=asc&sort=rank&site=stackoverflow&pagesize=100&page=1

Response:

{"error_id":500,"error_message":"this error has been logged","error_name":"internal_error"}

First occurrence: approximately 00:00UTC+00:00
Most recent occurrence: 06:17UTC+00:00

Update: this is back, has been happening for several days for me now, latest at 00:05UTC+00:00 on 18 January 2017. This only happens when I set pagesize=100.

Verified with and without application key. Verified from three independent IP addresses (and computers).

API docs recommend posting a question on Stack Apps, so here it is.

Answer 1

I don't know for sure what the original problem was, but the most recent issue was a result of implementing a new badge without rebuilding the API. Once the API was pushed to production, the bug was resolved. If it happens again (especially if there's a new badge) please let me (or really any employee) know. We can contact a developer directly.

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From a comment on a related question:

Fundamentally the problem is that the API can remain broken without us really paying attention to it. I appreciate your report since it prompted us to rebuild the API. (That was the immediate problem this time around.) But we shouldn't really be relying on user reports for this sort of thing.

We need to start treating our products as a platform. We don't treat our API as mission critical. There's good reasons for that, but it's going to hurt us if we don't sort it out eventually. (Summary: sorry about that. We can do better.)