The connection pool exhaustion that was not a connection pool problem
A production incident where every symptom pointed at the database, and the actual cause was an HTTP client with no timeout three services away.
Technical write-ups
Specifics rather than opinions. Architecture decisions, debugging trails, benchmarks and the occasional post-mortem.
A production incident where every symptom pointed at the database, and the actual cause was an HTTP client with no timeout three services away.
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