OpenAI Engineers Use Core-Dump Analysis to Kill an 18-Year-Old Bug
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OpenAI published an engineering deep dive on using large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug that had persisted for 18 years. The post details the 'core dump epidemiology' data-infrastructure approach to diagnosing crashes at scale. It's a useful reliability-engineering pattern for teams running large distributed systems.