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  1. App stability at scale with a layered defense

    To maintain app stability amidst rapid weekly releases and AI-generated code, Grab uses a layered defense strategy covering prevention, release gates, and incident response. This pipeline includes static analysis via custom lint rules, multiple tiers of automated and manual testing, a pre-production early access build, staged rollouts, and feature flags with instant kill switches. As a result, critical defects are caught early in the development lifecycle before reaching the wider production user base.

    DEPTH ■■■■■16 min read4 days ago

    MobileReliability

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  2. Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug

    During the beta of MySQL support for Hyperdrive, engineers investigated rare empty query responses and connection hangs occurring in 0.001% of requests. They discovered that sharing the data center cache between client and endpoint nodes caused protocol capability mismatches when translating MySQL wire messages. The team resolved the issue by standardizing the cache to always store responses encoded with canonical Hyperdrive capabilities.

    DEPTH ■■■■■9 min read11 days ago

    MySQL

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