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> It was two lines in a program that was calling a file from Sharepoint - thousands of times a second to the server and bogged down all three of the load balancer servers with traffic within minutes of the release.

That type of issue can be quickly identified if you have, on the team, the sort of mind who is inquisitive of what goes on at low levels, and is not afraid of poking around with tcpdump and network interface traffic counters and stuff like that.




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