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When an image pipeline fails silently: a disk-quota postmortem

A listing page said "48 photos" above a grid of blank tiles, and every layer underneath it, from encoder to cache to queue, had reported success. The account had hit its disk quota, the image encoder wrote nothing and said it had worked, and the cache filed the empty result as truth. Here is the whole chain, and the four changes that shipped the same morning.

Real estate runs on too many dashboards

Every realtor I've worked with pays for five systems that don't talk to each other. The fix isn't another integration. It's one system that owns the whole flow, from listing to lead to closed.

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