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by mootothemax 4006 days ago
The leap second caused our databases to all peg at 100% CPU/memory consumption.

I remember being utterly ridiculed that weekend, after swearing about fixing servers on Facebook.

It didn't take long for apologies to arrive on the following Monday, once the corporate sysadmins logged in and saw anything Java-based had also massively, massively failed.

It's the small (and petty!) victories.

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> anything Java-based had also massively, massively failed.

What was the error in Java?