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Jun 26Classic WTF: Fork and Log
by in CodeSOD on 2026-07-21We keep our summer break going. Today, there's something floating in the pool, and I don't think it's a Snickers bar. Original. --Remy
A few years back, Adam C. was brought in to help with some performance problems that appeared while load testing a VXML Platform. The project was already well behind and they couldn't figure out why the system kept falling over under a very slight load. To make matters worse, Adam had absolutely no prior knowledge of the system or its software other than Wikipedia’s definition of what VXML is.
A veteran to these sorts of situations, Adam grabbed a coffee, a donut, and then started picking through the application logs to get a feel for what the system is doing and where something might be going wrong.