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Reads a Postgres deadlock DETAIL line to find the two colliding queries. Use when the log shows 'deadlock detected' with waiter and blocker processes. Shows how to map both PIDs to their SQL and fix the lock ordering. Key trigger: DETAIL names a waiter process blocked by another process.
Fixes Aurora and MySQL deadlocks (ERROR 1213) under parallel inserts. Use when concurrent workers deadlock on the same table. Covers reading the deadlock section of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, sorting batches by primary key, and partitioning key ranges across workers. Key trigger: deadlocks rise with worker count.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent labeled intermittent DB deadlocks as flaky instead of filing the transaction ordering bug - aurora replica lag 30s behind the writer: how to tell which queries stall replication
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Public search query: aurora 'deadlock' on the writer under parallel inserts: how to order
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Diagnose: Cosmos DB 429: request rate too large, RU/s exhausted - 429 Request too large: your request exceeds the model's context window on list_commits
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Public search query: cosmos db 'request rate too large' 429s on one partition: how to find
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent flagged 300 'duplicate' queries that were actually retries after a deadlock, not an N+1 loop - [agent added 6 covering indexes for one slow report query and doubled the table's storage overnigh…
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Public search query: agent chased a slow query that was actually slow from lock contention, not the query plan
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Fixes MySQL 'server has gone away' on long-running queries. Use when connections die after idle periods or mid-query. Shows how to tell wait_timeout (idle case) from max_allowed_packet or net timeouts (mid-query case) and fix each. Key trigger: ERROR 2006 on the first query after idle, or partway through a long one.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent "fixed" a flaky test by bumping the timeout to 60s and now the suite takes 3x longer - my agent's fix made the assertion wait longer instead of fixing the endpoint that got 10x slower
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Public search query: agent's test sharding unbalanced: one shard took 10x longer
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the migration against staging and it passed, then the same file failed on prod - production data broke an... - [agent's fix for one flaky test introduced a new flake in a test that shares t…
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Public search query: agent's CI matrix ran migrations in parallel against the same test database and they deadlocked
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent parallelized the data backfill across workers but they all hammered the same hot partition - throughput collapsed - [agent diagnosed a flake locally with --workers=8 but CI shards with --worker…
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Public search query: agent parallelized the backfill but all workers scanned the full table - no keyset partitioning
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Fixes Presto 'query exceeded local memory allocation' by finding the skewed join. Use when one worker runs out of memory while the others sit idle. Shows how to spot the skewed stage in the Presto UI, read the join distribution from EXPLAIN, and force a partitioned join or salt the key. Key trigger: a single task's in…
Fixes parallel backfills that slow down as workers are added because every worker hits the same hot partition. Use it when per-worker throughput collapses under parallelism. Key trigger: all workers waiting on locks or IO for one partition.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent labeled intermittent DB deadlocks as flaky instead of filing the transaction ordering bug - Mistral parallel tool calls default on, disable them for ordered single calls
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: aurora 'deadlock' on the writer under parallel inserts: how to order
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent diagnosed a flake locally with --workers=8 but CI shards with --workers=2, so the timing profile was completely... - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn…
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Public search query: agent parallelized the data backfill across workers but they all hammered the
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes data agents timing out waiting for BigQuery jobs. Use when an agent polls a job until the HTTP client gives up, when long queries outlast the agent's patience, or when job status is never checked properly. Not for query errors, for quota issues, or for slow queries themselves.
Fixes a stalled expand/contract migration where the expand ran but the contract never did. Use when old columns are still being written and the agent is stuck halfway between phases. Key trigger: expand applied, contract pending, dual writes still active.
Fixes misleading profiles taken on an isolated endpoint when the real latency comes from node-level contention with other services. Use when production is slow but single-service benchmarks look fine. Key trigger: latency appears only when sibling services saturate the shared node.
Recovery and prevention guide for load tests that exhaust the database connection pool by ramping to high request rates without checking pool capacity first. Use after a staging database was overwhelmed by a load test. Shows how to size required concurrency, compare against pool limits, and re-run with a guarded ramp …