Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports
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In this episode of the backend engineering show I describe an interesting bug I ran into where the web server ran out of ephemeral ports causing the system to halt.
0:00 Intro
0:30 System architecture
2:20 The behavior of the bug
4:00 Backend Troubleshooting
7:00 The cause
15:30 Ephemeral ports on loopback
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