Asked with all sincerity… did you read my article?
"A kernel issue" was not "the problem." There was no "the problem". There were a slew of problems of which that was merely the icing on the nasty problem cake.
And considering how many times I lauded our sys admin as an expert and top talent, not sure why you would think he was "run of the mill." Nope, we hired somebody who had one of the best possible track records in the RoR world. We had a redundant architecture from day 1. My demand was that we have a system ready to work at scale so we wouldn't be growing and 8 or 9 months in, have to migrate servers, complete with customers. Not my cup of tea. Unfortunately, that caution didn't help (and maybe it hurt).
"A kernel issue" was not "the problem." There was no "the problem". There were a slew of problems of which that was merely the icing on the nasty problem cake.
And considering how many times I lauded our sys admin as an expert and top talent, not sure why you would think he was "run of the mill." Nope, we hired somebody who had one of the best possible track records in the RoR world. We had a redundant architecture from day 1. My demand was that we have a system ready to work at scale so we wouldn't be growing and 8 or 9 months in, have to migrate servers, complete with customers. Not my cup of tea. Unfortunately, that caution didn't help (and maybe it hurt).