The problem appears
A few weeks ago, the infrastructure team here at Frameable received a report from one of our colleagues that made us feel like the floor had dropped out from under us. Our internal monitoring system – codename ‘Canary’ – had been silently failing for days!
Canary is a small, simple NodeJs app that once a minute runs a series of si…
I always feel a little paranoid when I explicitly close transactions, connections, and files (for quick running scripts, the OS will close the file when my process exits and for long running applications, the garbage collector will close it when the object leaves the scope). Then I read a blog post like this an remember that it is always better to explicitly free resources when I am done with them.