Your service was running fine. Then it wasn't. Logs end mid-sentence. Exit code 137. No stack trace, no graceful shutdown. The Linux OOM killer chose your process and ended it without ceremony. Knowing how it picks victims, why it exists, and how to argue with its choices is the difference between mysterious crashes and a fixable problem.
Engineering Craft
TypeScript, CI/CD, databases, observability -- the skills that make code production-ready.
