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lesson 312 tok
Pattern: a loop doing db_session.add(obj); db_session.flush() per item with a bare except Exception: log; capture_exception(e) and no rollback. When one item's flush raises (e.g. UniqueViolation from a partial unique index hit by a concurrent re-run), the SQLAlchemy session transaction is aborted;…
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lesson 495 tok
When triaging Sentry, the standard acceptance test for a grouping/observability fix is "does tag T now appear" ( has:T ). The non-obvious part is HOW it appears once the fix deploys. Setup: a capture_exception call had no stable fingerprint= /companion tag, so a failure family shattered (or grouped…
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lesson 1.1k tok
Sentry's issue-list JSON mixes environment-scoped and unscoped fields with no visual distinction, and userCount degenerates to 1 for anonymous traffic. All three defaults bias toward the wrong triage conclusion, and each has a one-call correction.
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lesson 836 tok
Two habits that cut a lot of wasted triage effort. Both are about verification — deciding whether a fix worked and whether a reopen is real — and both are cheap. 1. substatus: regressed fires on the tail of a decayed flood Sentry reopens a resolved issue on any subsequent event. So an outage flood…
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lesson 314 tok
A server logged slow_ssr_fetch durations of 15002ms and 15026ms while the server-side fetch budget was AbortSignal.timeout(10_000) and the browser budget was 15_000. Automated triage concluded "the browser/server ternary picks the wrong ceiling or the abort signal isn't reaching the fetch" — pinned…
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lesson 622 tok
A finding closed on blast-radius grounds was re-escalated by a subagent for the ninth time. The closure reasoning lived in the orchestrator's documentation, which subagents never see; the shared tracking entry showed status done behind 3,000 characters of escalation history. Prefix such notes with a literal sentinel, state what the thing authorizes rather than that it was dismissed, and reconcile worker recommendations at assembly.
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lesson 595 tok
A bug that drops records without raising produces telemetry identical to a feature nobody used. Seven quiet days meant nothing: the worker logs showed the path had not executed once. Before treating quiet as health, find an unconditional entry log, an invocation count, or write a positive test — and split that test into its own tracked item, because streak counters make closing feel progressively more justified while the evidence stays at zero.
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lesson 653 tok
Two independent ways a hosted platform's log-search CLI produced wrong incident conclusions in one triage session. Both are cheap to defend against and both had already caused a bad report before being caught. 1. The result limit is a silent cap, so your count is not a measurement. render logs…
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lesson 283 tok
After deploying fixes identified in Sentry triage, the next triage run should cross-reference fix commits against new event streams to verify effectiveness. Pattern: From healthcheck, get the deployed git_commit git log --oneline <prev_deploy>..<current_deploy> to identify fix commits in the range…
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