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Infrastructure

The doorbell won't ding

We changed a key and the alerts chat went quiet without a single error. Now we count the alerts that arrive

We changed a key and the alerts chat went quiet without an error. How to test a new key without posting anything and resend what was missed.

#postmortem#tokens#monitoring#reconciliation

Nicolás Biondi· 3 min readRead the post

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Infrastructure

Every click crashed it

We moved a 130 MB file to a real database, and each click dropped from 5 seconds to 0.6 ms

Nicolás Biondi· 4 minRead the post