The power and destructive force of C++
The power and destructive force of C++. A core dump occurred instead of throwing an exception, all because of a call to an incorrectly chosen standard library method. Caught an incident today in a critical production service due to a missed rare corner case.
Next week I will write a post about it. Read more by the link below
How a Rare C++ Edge Case Took Down a Business-Critical Service
One evening, I was about to go home, but received an alert from a business-critical service. It looked horrible. About one-third of API queries were failing, and the number of failed requests per second was very high. I even laughed at the situation, because it was the fourth incident this
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