A stuck Postgres lock took my whole site down. Here's the one-line cause and the fix.
My site started returning HTTP 500 on every request today. Not a slow page, not one broken route. The entire app was down. Here's what it turned out to be and how I stopped it from happening again, in case it saves someone a bad afternoon. The symptom Every request returned a bare Internal Server Error . The app container was technically "online" in my host's dashboard, but nothing rendered.…
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