I have never understood the fixation with C++ unless you're in the business of writing kernels, device drivers, embedded systems, etc.
On Fri, 1 Sept 2023 at 08:44, Greg Keogh via ozdotnet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > Folks, it's Friday and I have an anecdote to share before I return to > today's coding fiasco. I'll just tell you what happened and try to avoid > making judgements, I'll leave that to you. > > For about 4 years we've had an Azure hosted Web API/service driving a > moderately complex Blazor app and some other smaller clients. The service > hosted a C++ library that did the heavy lifting of generating > cross-tabulation reports. The trouble was, that the service would randomly > crash deep inside the C++ dll and it would leave no useful diagnostic > evidence, usually just a hint about some kind of memory access violation. > It would never crash in testing, only in Azure. I presume here is a way to > diagnose this sort of crash in Azure hosting, but you probably need the > minidump and symbol files out of the C++ compile, I'm not exactly sure, as > I just couldn't face the toil, and by great luck it was due for replacement > anyway. Some very large US companies were suffering from the crash > interruptions and there was a serious risk that we could lose their > business. > > The lucky part is that the huge C++ codebase was already being rewritten > in C#, so we went into a frenzy of continued conversion and testing, and > the C# replacement is now about 90% rolled-out. and guess what?! ... The > random crashes are gone and one customer even sent us a message of thanks > for the new reliability. > > We did have a few small unhandled exceptions, but I simply went to the > Azure portal logs and the stack trace pointed us straight to the problem > point. We could usually publish a fix within half an hour. > > So years of random C++ crashes were completely cured by a C# rewrite. > > *Greg K* > -- > ozdotnet mailing list > To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/
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