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The Anatomy of a High-Scale Outage & The Cold Cache Trap
At 8:45 AM on a Monday, an incident alert replaced our daily stand-up. Over 200 engineers, operations leads, and executives joined the emergency bridge. Production was halted: database CPU hit 90%, response times degraded from 40ms to over 20 minutes, and customers could not log in. Because banking platforms operate as critical national infrastructure, every minute of total unavailability triggers mandatory self-reporting to financial regulators like BaFin. The Incident: Fa
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Enhance your Codebase Integrity and Accountability by Verifying Commits
Our company recently upgraded Bitbucket, allowing us to sign our commits. This feature was introduced in September 2024, even though...
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Nov 17, 20242 min read


Time in Oracle
Today, I will share my experience with time in our Oracle database. Surprisingly, it is very fluid and relative. Everything started with...
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Jun 18, 20243 min read


Logs and Logging
Logging is more than technical issues such as log level or a logback configuration. They are also important but optional. I'll show you...
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Mar 23, 20242 min read
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