# A fictional story about vanishing messages in Snap's microservices

DevFeed: [A fictional story about vanishing messages in Snap's microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/spooky-stories-the-vanishing-messages-at-snap-tower-35990.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/spooky-stories-the-vanishing-messages-at-snap-tower>)

Author: Tim Imkin

Published: 2024-10-31T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>), [Microservice](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservice.md>), [Traces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traces.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [message-queue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/message-queue.md>), [messages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messages.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [snap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/snap.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

A fictional spooky story follows an on-call engineer investigating failures in Snap's microservices, including disappearing messages, queue errors, traces pointing to nonexistent workflows, and unexplained anomalies.

## Source excerpt

They say something strange happens deep within Snap Tower, hidden behind the pristine walls and endless lines of code.