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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

Aug 25, 2024
20:06


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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