A Tale of Two Production Bugs (Part 1)

This is a recollection of a particularly tricky bug I encountered in a production system during my time at Sumo Logic in 2013, when I was just a few years out of school and still new to building software. Sumo Logic ran a very large AWS infrastructure in those days, spanning thousands of EC2 instances , as part of building the first log management system in the cloud. Being quite early in AWS'…