One of the concerns about a water body like a dam is how well maintained the sluices are. And one should add to it, how well the pressure safety valves are engineered.

Encountered yet another of our current stacks’ concerns today - a singular GraphQL-esque end point with no isolation. Add to the mix, a not so well thought handling of connections and we had a good CPU spike. Second day in a row dealing with database concerns isn’t a welcome Independence day.

Action items for the week ahead.

• Plumb the plum intakes and isolate requests.
• Enforce a configuration audit across the stack - the weaker links seem to be coming from here.
• Force normalise environments and push the pedal on pre-prod.