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Mid air airplane repair: Troubleshooting at WhatsApp [video] (codesync.global)
10 points by srijan4 on March 28, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Debugging live in erlang and code hot-loading is addicting, but sometimes one small mistake means you blow up a server or even whole system. And it really feels like mid air airplane repair, especially when your server is serving 1M events a second and you try not to drown your console in debug output. One mistake and your terminal is blocked trying to display several GB of text.




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