Recently, I ran into a unique challenge: I needed to connect a byte stream Writer to code that reads from a byte stream Reader. They both process a stream of bytes, but in different directions. This felt like tracing a big knot of cables only to find that both cables have plugs on the ends so…

Rare, hard to reproduce bugs are the hardest. We recently fixed a deadlock that had plagued our code for nearly a year, but only showed up about once a month. We would notice something was stuck, debug it for a bit, then finally…