Category: AWS

By Aman Agrawal Posted on

Curious Case of Database Transaction Deadlocks Using TransactionScope

We built an event driven system in my team over 2 years ago that sometime back ran into database transaction deadlock problems which puzzled me enough to want to take a deeper look into what happened. This mini-post is a bit of documentation of that investigation.

By Aman Agrawal Posted on

Recovering from Aurora Database Failovers and MySql Connection Pooling

Recently a planned AWS Aurora database failover/master reboot caused database connection failures in one of our services which caused me to delve deeper into how MySql driver manages connections under the hood.