Listen "054: We're So Quacked"
Episode Synopsis
At 3:30 AM the day before Thanksgiving, Ben received an emergency page about a failing API end-point. Rushing to his desk, groggy-eyed and in various states of undress, he jumped into the #incident channel on Slack to see what was happening. What unfolded over the next 30-hours was the manifestation of Ben's worst nightmare. The moment he had been dreading for the last 4-years had finally come to pass: two of his database columns had run out of storage space! Using feature flags, emergency hot-fixes, shadow tables, and a database migration being performed over a transient and unstable terminal session, he and his team somehow made it through to the other side just in time to enjoy Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie!"Hug your data engineers - they are amazing people!" — Ben NadelNotes & LinksLiquibasePercona TooklitMySQL's Information SchemaDatadogCFSearching: CFQueryparam Matrix for MySQL 5Ben Nadel: CAUTION: Silent Value Truncation In CFQueryParam Tag In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47Ben Nadel: Recording Datadog / StatsD Gauges For Database Key UtilizationBen Nadel: Inspecting Primary And Secondary Index Key Utilization For MySQLFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @WorkingCodePod on Twitter and Instagram. Or, leave us a message at (512) 253-2633 (that's 512-253-CODE). New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.
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