Android WebView app shows blank screen on initial load

Summary Initial WebView blank screen failures are typically caused by timing or lifecycle issues where the WebView attempts to load content before the native view hierarchy is fully attached and ready. The “works after restart” symptom strongly indicates a first-run initialization race condition or cache/state mismatch. In real production systems, this manifests as a conditional … Read more

Introduction to Laravel Blade Template and Views

Summary This postmortem analyzes a critical UI (User Interface) failure in a Laravel application where the navigation menu logic within the partials.navbar view prevented authenticated administrators from accessing the User Cart or Transaction History, despite these routes being available. The root cause was a conditional branching error in the Blade template that restricted menu options … Read more

CollectionView display messages backwards

Summary The core issue is a architectural mismatch between the user’s goal and the MAUI CollectionView’s default behavior. The RemainingItemsThresholdReachedCommand is designed for infinite scroll loading at the bottom of a list, which is the standard pattern for feeds. In a chat application, you typically need bidirectional loading (load history at the top, new messages … Read more

API versioning in Spring Boot, how to avoid code duplication (SonarQube Code Duplication)?

Summary In Spring Boot microservices, developers often version APIs by copy-pasting controller classes, especially when the business logic change is minimal. This leads to significant code duplication, frequently caught by static analysis tools like SonarQube, which blocks the build due to quality gates. The specific scenario involves two controllers (v1 and v2) sharing nearly identical … Read more

Data ingestion to splunk cloud using Lambda

Summary Ingesting 1TB per hour (approximately 278 MB/s) to Splunk Cloud using AWS Lambda alone is fundamentally constrained by Lambda’s concurrency model and network egress limits, leading to predictable throttling and data latency. The root cause is not a configuration error, but an architectural mismatch: attempting to use a stateless, burst-optimized compute service (Lambda) for … Read more

How do we revive stackoverflow?

Summary The question of reviving Stack Overflow’s popularity has been a topic of discussion among developers. Attracting and retaining users is crucial for the platform’s success. To achieve this, Stack Overflow needs to become a space where developers hang out, share knowledge, and collaborate. Root Cause The root cause of Stack Overflow’s declining numbers can … Read more

Assigning various GPU types at runtime in Kubernetes

Summary This postmortem analyzes the failure to schedule a GPU-accelerated container after a node outage when using preferred node affinity in Kubernetes. The core issue was an overly restrictive pod specification that assumed the availability of a specific GPU resource or node label. While the scheduling directive was “preferred,” the pod’s container spec likely defined … Read more

fstat vs stat – fstat does not update?

Summary The issue at hand is the inconsistent behavior of fstat(2) when compared to stat(2) in updating the st_mtime field after a file modification. This discrepancy arises when using fstat with a file descriptor that was opened prior to the file modification, whereas stat always seems to fetch the latest information. Root Cause The root … Read more

How to exclude subtotal lines from result

Summary This postmortem addresses a failure in invoice parsing logic designed to exclude subtotal lines using a regular expression. The system incorrectly identified and processed certain non-service rows, leading to data contamination in downstream aggregation. The core issue was a misunderstanding of negative lookahead assertions and character consumption within the regex engine, combined with a … Read more