Debugged year of crashes: found hardware issue and 18-year-old bug in open-source code

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Debugged year of crashes: found hardware issue and 18-year-old bug in open-source code

Systematic debugging of data infrastructure crashes revealed one hardware issue.
Another root cause was an unnoticed bug in open-source code for 18 years.
The debugging process is detailed in the linked article.

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