My Year-Long Quest to Debug a Single Tcp Connection
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Author shares their year-long quest to debug a single TCP connection and introduces a Go library for TCP_INFO metrics.
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simeonmiteffAuthor
5 months ago
After my year-long quest to debug a mysterious and faulty TCP connection, I created go-tcpinfo. It's a Go library for safely getting TCP_INFO metrics from the Linux kernel, built to provide the deep observability needed to solve such issues.
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