The problem appears
A few weeks ago, the infrastructure team here at Frameable received a report from one of our colleagues that made us feel like the floor had dropped out from under us. Our internal monitoring system – codename ‘Canary’ – had been silently failing for days!
Canary is a small, simple NodeJs app that once a minute runs a series of si…
I feel like node’s async model makes it really easy to cause a bug like this, and really difficult to track it down.
It was left to the OS to catch the leak, because the program was written in such a way that it was able to run a gazillion of these tasks concurrently.
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I feel like node’s async model makes it really easy to cause a bug like this, and really difficult to track it down.
It was left to the OS to catch the leak, because the program was written in such a way that it was able to run a gazillion of these tasks concurrently.