Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging

Over the past 8 years we've fixed a lot of bugs in Linkerd. Many of these were straightforward, but some of them manifested in strange ways, or only showed up in unique situations, or otherwise surprised us. Some of them were just plain funny. In this talk Alex Leong runs through a couple of our favorites: the most interesting, weird, and memorable bugs we've found and fixed in Linkerd. She describes how they originally manifested (usually in someone else's production system), how we went about tackling them (often by educating the reporter on how to construct a useful bug report), and the sometimes long and windy path to finally fixing them.

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