> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://handbook.polar.sh/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tech Notes

> Technical insights, debugging stories, and engineering learnings from the Polar team

Welcome to Polar Tech Notes! Here you'll find technical deep-dives, debugging stories, and insights from our engineering team.

## Latest Post

<Card title="Worker Memory Leak Act 2" icon="bug" href="/engineering/tech-notes/worker-memory-leak-act-2">
  Further investigations and discoveries regarding worker OOM

  **Author:** François Voron • **Published:** 2025-12-01
</Card>

## All Posts

* [Investigating Worker Memory Leak in Polar](/engineering/tech-notes/worker-memory-leak) - A deep dive into debugging memory leaks in our Python worker system using Dramatiq and Redis (*Petru Rares Sincraian*, 2025-08-29)

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## Post-mortems

* [2026-06-12](/engineering/tech-notes/postmortems/2026-06-12) - An incident report detailing the outage of the Polar platform on June 12, 2026, its impact, root cause analysis, and actions taken to prevent future occurrences.

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## About Our Tech Notes

Our tech notes document:

* **Technical Investigations**: Deep-dives into complex problems and their solutions
* **Debugging Stories**: Real-world debugging scenarios and methodologies
* **Performance Optimizations**: How we improve system performance and scalability
* **Lessons Learned**: Key insights from building and maintaining Polar

Want to contribute? Check out our [engineering guidelines](/engineering/introduction) and reach out to the engineering team.
