I've been there, painfully. On my last day on a job, some code I wrote went into production, and the databases started filling up rapidly, to the point where the whole system would halt in a few hours.
Turned out the bug had been latent in the code for 5+ years, predating me. Its data consumption had never been observed before because it was swamped by other data consumption. Changing the architecture to remove that other data brought it to the foreground.
(fwiw, the bug was caused by the difference between 0 and null as a C pointer!)
Turned out the bug had been latent in the code for 5+ years, predating me. Its data consumption had never been observed before because it was swamped by other data consumption. Changing the architecture to remove that other data brought it to the foreground.
(fwiw, the bug was caused by the difference between 0 and null as a C pointer!)