39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “InnoDB”
Production Incidents45 min read
A payment commits, the API returns 200, the rack loses power, and after recovery the row does not exist. Before blaming the database, six questions have to be separated.
Production Incidents18 min read
It's 3 AM. Inserts are failing with 'Duplicate entry 2147483647' — but you never inserted a duplicate. Welcome to one of MySQL's most quietly famous outages.
Schema Design12 min read
Why DELETE is the most expensive DML operation in a relational database — and why a simple UPDATE SET deleted_at = NOW() is 4-8x faster under concurrent load.