How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug →

I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career. I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and the blog post. Before Tailscale, I was coming from smaller teams where I didn’t get to tackle problems of this scale or complexity. This was exactly the sort of tricky, deep technical challenge I wanted to be part of (though I’d rather it hadn’t been quite so stressful)! I’m glad I got to play a small part in these incidents, and I learnt so much from the more experienced engineers I worked with. I never want to hear the words “SQLite corruption” again, but if I do, I’d want to have Tailscalars at my side. Writing the blog post has a blast, too. The piece transformed from a rough draft into a solid, engaging piece of writing, thanks to thoughtful feedback from many people at Tailscale. Most of my writing is self-edited, and it’s always a pleasure to…