This is a post about how I had a bug in a background job that ended up sending huge emails to customers. Learn about how I found & debugged the issue, mitigated the problem, and then finally fixed the underlying causes. Previous title was “Sending Massive Emails Considered Harmful”. It was a quiet day in July when I got a message from SendGrid about a service I run, CodeTriage, which helps people
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