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#softwareengineering
A nice catalogue of low-hanging fruit which no-one had picked...
The fix was a few lines of code to stop traversing after twenty navigation nodes, presumably saving a few million dollars in server and power costs. I didn’t find this bug by looking at the monitoring graphs, but anybody who looked at them could have.
Bottom line:
...it wasn’t until this last bug that I realized I needed to move on to a different company.
#debugging
#softwareengineering
#nobodycaresaboutquality
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/the-easy-ones-three-bugs-hiding-in-the-open