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Welcome to this month's edition of detect! As always, we aim to share the most insightful content. We're brought to you by Prequel, the community-driven problem detection platform.
And now, here's a digest of what happened last month in the world of problem detection.
Enjoy!
Notable Incidents 🔥
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT Outage - A telemetry service update led to one of ChatGPT's largest outages (techcrunch). A breakdown of OpenAI’s public postmortem (surfingcomplexity).
- Canva’s API Gateway Outage - An in-depth look at Canva's API gateway failure and how their team tackled the outage (canva.dev).
- Google Cloud Networking Issue - Google Cloud experienced a significant incident impacting global customers. (status.cloud.google)
- GitHub’s Incident Response - Learn how GitHub managed a prolonged platform disruption and restored functionality (githubstatus).
- Meta Platforms Outage - Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp suffered a global service outage, disrupting billions of users worldwide (bleepingcomputer).
- Okta’s Authentication Incident - An authentication issue at Okta left users unable to access services (status.okta).
Real Problem Detection & Troubleshooting Stories 📖
- NFD’s Incident Story - A real-world debugging journey into how a bug in the Node Feature Discovery service led to widespread disruptions (ahmet).
- The Race Condition Strikes Back - A fascinating dive into how a subtle race condition wreaked havoc in a production system (ankush).
- Debugging Rust Features - Lessons learned from navigating the complexities of debugging Rust applications (rustunit).
- Memory Corruption Mysteries in Unity - A deep dive into solving memory corruption issues in Unity’s platform and engine (unity).
- Out of Memory Issues in Java Containers - Practical strategies to identify and resolve OOM errors in Java-based container environments (dzone).
- Mastering Ruby Debugging - A guide to becoming a more efficient Ruby debugger by leveraging modern tools (jetbrains).
- Exploring io_uring - Debugging tales from using io_uring, Linux’s high-performance I/O interface, and its unexpected challenges (rustylife).
Architecting for Reliability 📐👷♀️
- Enhancing Observability with eBPF - eBPF’s capabilities for improving observability and monitoring are transforming modern infrastructure (equinix).
- Surviving Outages - Cockroach Labs shares their resilience strategies for handling service failures (cockroachlabs).
- Breaking Systems on Purpose - Slack’s approach to chaos engineering and its role in fortifying systems (slack).
- Handling Sudden Traffic Bursts - Discussion on how to design systems that gracefully handle unpredictable spikes in traffic (thescalablethread).
Maturing Your Reliability Program 🌱
- MTTR and Power Laws - An exploration of how misinterpreting MTTR metrics can lead to flawed reliability programs (surfingcomplexity).
Tools 🛠️
- Cloudflare’s h3i - A new tool for intercepting and debugging HTTP/3 requests (cloudflare).
- DuckDB + Pyroscope - An open-source extension for enhanced performance profiling with DuckDB (github).
- Intercepting Syscalls - Explore techniques for syscall debugging to identify and resolve low-level issues (mggross).some text
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