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Compressing Logs 169x (uber.com)
1 points by craftsquick 1355 days ago
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"On our memory-constrained systems, this causes many small writes over a long period of time, which in turn causes SSD write-amplification. As a mitigation, we reduced the logging level from INFO to WARN, but this is contrary to what our users want!"

I wonder how many developers ended up doing... s/log.info(/log.warn(/