Interview – Brad Fitzpatrick
summary
A story about real debugging and deployment not theory or slides A goroutine bomb written to parallelize syncs overloads the system creating 20,000 kernel threads then gets tamed into a working sync tool The IO package bug around devnull plus buffer recycling trips the race detector and corrupts SHA hashes until new tests and a sink pool fix the behavior Concrete failures numbers fixes and tools are described and shown working
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:31What was your first useful program
- 1:52Whats the cutest bug youve dealt with
- 3:10Whats the worst piece of code
- 3:57Whats the best piece of code
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