Debugging Adventures #2: Memory Leaks In Database
Debugging a prod issue where we had a memory leak in RDS
Oct 20, 20233 min read601
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My debugging adventures in production!
Debugging Adventures #1: Memory and Sidekiq
I love debugging. You know the one where you cant for the love of god figure out why something is happening the way it is or why it's happening in a way it shouldn’t? Exactly, those! So here is a series of posts in a "story" format of my adventures....
Oct 20, 20233 min read282
Decoding Request Queueing in Rails
From VMs to Kubernetes Recently We migrated our backend services from a traditional virtual machine (VM) infrastructure to a containerized environment managed by Kubernetes (K8s). During this transition, we hit a roadblock where during high load the ...
Sep 2, 20234 min read962
Why Every User Without a Profile Picture on GitHub Was Yehuda Katz
The bug In 2013, GitHub experienced a bug that caused every user without a profile photo to be assigned the profile photo of a specific user, Yehuda Katz, who is a well-known software developer and member of the Ruby on Rails core team. The reason f...
Mar 16, 20235 min read716