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The pod that did not survive Tuesday's deploy

calendar_today June 17, 2026 person Bill Easton domain pydantic-ai

A Vercel AI SDK chatbot deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine throws 500 errors on 8% of requests after a Tuesday deploy. Using Pydantic Logfire’s new Kubernetes observability view, developers identify a pod stuck in an out-of-memory restart loop caused by a tokenizer dependency that doubled memory usage in the new image.

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