VKVinod Kumar Rinrog.hashnode.dev·Jul 4 · 14 min readWhat a Missing 6 AM Production Report Taught Us About IIS Application PoolsIntroduction Every software engineer eventually encounters a production issue that changes the way they think about application architecture. Sometimes it's a database bottleneck, sometimes it's an in00
VKVinod Kumar Rinrog.hashnode.dev·Dec 19, 2025 · 5 min readApplication Pools & Identity: Why IIS Failures Are So Hard to ExplainMost IIS production failures share a common pattern. The site is running.The application pool is started.Deployment succeeded. And yet: requests return HTTP 500 logs are missing or incomplete some endpoints work while others fail restarting IIS c...00