#linux
grep -l "linux" /portfolio/* · 3 entriesThe change that wasn't in the ticket
A server started failing after a quiet weekend. Nothing was in the change log, but the file system remembered what had changed.
Heartbleed week: patching everything at once
Heartbleed meant finding every OpenSSL we ran, patching it, restarting what still had the old library loaded, and then replacing the keys.
One extra second that pinned every CPU
What I took from the June 2012 leap second: a kernel timer bug, Java and MySQL spinning at full CPU, and a fix that was just setting the clock.