Listening: Why was the app so slow?
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Why was the app so slow?
Robert and Melissa are in the Denver office discussing why users have been unhappy with the application performance.
Why was the app so slow?
Listen and choose the right answer
What problem had customers been experiencing for months?
- The app was completely deleted
- The platform was extremely sluggish
- The login page was showing error 404
Why didn't the team know about the memory issue earlier?
- Someone had silenced the main alert system
- The monitoring tool was broken
- There were no users online
Who had turned off the alert system according to git history?
- Robert
- Melissa
- Dave
What is the underlying cause of the performance degradation?
- A bad query deployed last spring
- A broken keyboard in the server room
- A lack of internet connection in Denver
Listen again and complete the sentences
- Robert: Melissa, we've got a huge problem with the new release because our customers in Denver have been complaining that the platform is extremely ____ .
- Robert: Have you found any ____ or something else that might cause the application to bloat so fast?
- Melissa: Well, the memory usage on the heap had been creeping up ____ for months before it finally reached the tipping point today.
- Robert: For months? How could that happen ____ while our monitoring tools were running?
- Robert: Unbelievable! He thought it was just a false alarm, but it was actually flagging a chronic ____ in our database performance.
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