tl;dr Because you lost the access to Azure Key Vault (AKV) or Managed HSM. And you can find the culprit for the problem in your Error Log. Just search for “AzureKeyVault” and it’ll give you a clue. For those looking for super-short answer, well, there you go. Restore the access, revalidate the key and you’ll […]
Tag: databases
Crash, Recovery and Binary Logs
We had a funny situation. Our Sphinx Search Engine crashed the other day and, once restarted, it reported that it’s doing crash-recovery of Real-Time (RT) Index using a 76GB binary log. And you don’t need to be Computer Science major to understand that recovering anything from 76 gigs would take … a while. Now, here’s […]
What I didn’t know about ‘I’ in ACID
From having your ORM randomly lose data to getting $50,000 in BTC stolen, is a range of documented issues related to faulty understanding of DB isolation levels and how they behave under concurrency. And that’s stupid, because, if you took 10mins to read this article, you’d be well equipped to actually understand how your system […]
Let’s talk about Data Models and ORMs
I can’t really pinpoint the moment that got me thinking. It was probably related to the sheer number of code tests that I’ve been reviewing lately and the rising phenomena of “Framework Developers”. I’m not talking about developers who actively develop frameworks. No. I’m talking about people who actually learn to program by learning […]