Kaizen 22 is a technical post-mortem session where Gerhard Lazu rejoins Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak to work through real production problems on changelog.com, specifically out-of-memory errors hitting their live infrastructure.
The episode covers three concrete items: diagnosing OOM crashes, reviewing a newly built Pipedream instance status checker, and investigating anomalous download behavior from a single user in Asia repeatedly pulling one episode. The Erlang-in-Anger reference is not decorative. The title 'Let it crash' signals they are examining failure as a system property, not an accident.
Read the full episode and the linked GitHub discussion #554 if you want the unfiltered reasoning behind their tooling choices and what the download anomaly actually turned out to be. The process of how they debug matters as much as the fixes.
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