Closing Plenary - Main Room (Fri, 11:00)

Running production systems on the Internet tends to be full of surprises. After all, "the Internet is a collection of corner cases". One of the hardest tasks in keeping systems running is debugging such corner cases.

In this talk, we will go over a couple of weird corner case bugs, and the process taken for debugging them. Each case will also be accompanied by a brief 'lessons learned', that touch on often held believes that may stand in one's way when trying to understand why a system does not…