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The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our first production spike came during a Black Friday weekend when the hunt feed exceeded 180k concurrent sessions. The Rails process memory ballooned to 4.2 GB, the P99 latency for /hunt/start hit 5.2 seconds, and the New Relic trace showed 72 % of that time...
May 26, 2026 · 4 min read
The Singleton Labyrinth: Navigating the Hidden Dangers of Global State Imagine a meticulously designed city, with clear roads, logical intersections, and well-marked paths. Now imagine secret tunnels appearing overnight, allowing residents to bypass entire districts, seemingly saving time....
May 26, 2026 · 10 min read
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The real pain wasnt disk size; it was cognitive load on level designers. Every hunt lived in a separate fork of the same monorepo, diffing 14 kB YAMLs was misery, and once the file exceeded 100 kB we started getting partial-checkout timeouts in CI because Git...
May 26, 2026 · 5 min read