The Dumb Git Protocol That Flooded Our Git Server

A CI clone spike pulled terabytes off an internal git server and caused an outage. The cause was one URL pointing at git’s dumb HTTP protocol, which makes every fresh clone re-fetch a repo object by object.

July 17, 2026 · 5 min · thrix

How a Single Regex Stalled 30 Testing Farm Jobs for Hours

Tracing stuck Testing Farm jobs from process list through Python stack traces to a catastrophic regex backtracking bug in tmt — caused by a 1M-character line in test output.

March 6, 2026 · 5 min · thrix