[dglassan]

Do not blame this on Groupon's US engineering team. This is code from crazeal.com, which Groupon acquired (check the 'was thrown in' part of the exception message).

A lot of Groupon's international sites are on different platforms than the Groupon US site. This is because they expanded by acquiring the leading daily deals sites in all the countries they moved in to. There's been a big project within the company to move all international markets onto a single system but I'm sure you can imagine how difficult and time consuming of a project that is.

[salilpa]

Agreed it is from crazeal's code. but running something on debug mode is completely unacceptable.