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Cake day: August 28th, 2023

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  • This happens when the neutral goes out in a house. Usually the waterlines will handle it, but if the house has pex the ground will go through the gas lines.

    Especially if a high voltage line comes down on a gas meter for whatever reason.

    Definitely run away and call professional… everyone i guess.










  • That’s not really… possible at this point. We have thousands of customers (some very large ones, like A——n and G—-e and Wal___t) with tens or hundreds of millions of users, and even at lowest traffic periods do 60k+ queries per second.

    This is the same MySQL instance I wrote about a while ago that hit the 16TiB table size limit (due to ext4 file system limitations) and caused a massive outage; worst I’ve been involved in during my 26 year career.

    Every day I am shocked at our scale, considering my company is only like 90 engineers.