Prateek Srivastava·4d agoMy SSIS Job Said “Running” for Hours. The Server Had Crashed Underneath It.A stuck batch job, 19 blue screens in eight days that nobody noticed, and the outdated Azure driver behind themA response icon1A response icon1
Prateek Srivastava·4d agoThe RDP Bug That Only Struck When Someone Closed Their WindowTwo outages, one Windows update, and the debugging habits I’m keeping after “Remote Desktop Services is currently busy”
Prateek Srivastava·4d ago“The File Is Open in System”: A Phantom Lock, a 7-Zip Warning, and a Failed Production BatchNotes from a real incident: what the error means, how to find the process behind it, and how an exit code of 1 failed a batch. The incident…
Prateek Srivastava·Oct 7Why Your Spark Job Died in 42 Milliseconds — And Kubernetes Didn’t Even BlinkA production war story about a race condition so small, it’s almost invisible
InAWS TipbyPrateek Srivastava·Oct 7Silent Betrayal: How AWS Quietly Switched Credentials on My Spark Jobs and Caused Mystery 403…A production war story about IRSA, the DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain, and a failure nobody loggedA response icon2A response icon2
Prateek Srivastava·Sep 21Elastic Just Went Full AI — And It’s More Powerful Than You ThinkFrom a log aggregation engine to an agentic AI platform — here’s everything Elastic shipped in 2026, why it matters, and what it means for…A response icon1A response icon1
Prateek Srivastava·Sep 4Moving Files Between Isolated Cloud Accounts Sounds Simple. Here’s Everything That Went Wrong.A field guide to cross-account data transfers — the three failures nobody warns you about, the fixes that actually held, and the AWS…A response icon1A response icon1
