Receiving a request, saving it into a database, and finally publishing a messagecan be trickier than expected. A naive implementation can either lose... | Continue reading
Killing processes in a Unix-like system can be trickier than expected. Lastweek I was debugging an odd issue related to job stopping on Semaphore.More specifically, an issue related to the killing of a running process in ajob. | Continue reading
Mentoring younger developers is a very rewarding experience. It challenges youryour pre-established ways of thinking, and it forces you to re-evaluate... | Continue reading
Last week I was debugging a weird bug in one of our services. In the logs wesaw an SQL error “repetition-operator operand invalid”, so I was pretty surethat we have a broken SQL comparison in one of our services. The weird partwas that this error happened only occasionally, seemi … | Continue reading