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by wokwokwok 655 days ago
While both of those things are true, I’d be hesitant to call out this:

> Once we moved to other tasks, we started seeing the pods go OOMKilled. We took turns looking into the issue, but we couldn’t determine the exact cause.

As a particular “yay clojure” kind of moment.

This was an obscure bug/“feature” in the clojure standard library. That’s not normal, and having to dig into the clojure standard library, even if it only a line or two, is certainly not something I’d be particularly calling out as standard practice or “easy” maintenance.

The standard library is for the most part enormously reliable.

You should almost never have to do this.