<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teej</author><text>Hey guys, thanks a TON for reaching out and helping me get this fixed.  Through the efforts of Aman Gupta and my friend Ryan Stout, we were able to track down the source of the problem.&lt;p&gt;I really appreciate your help!&lt;p&gt;I promise to write up a blog post talking about my unique setup and how I fucked it up to lead to this problem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)</title><text>Hacker News -&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters.  We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m in a very sticky situation.  Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing.  It&apos;s silently crashing without leaving a trace.  It&apos;s getting into some hard to reproduce states.  The situation is not looking good.&lt;p&gt;And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.&lt;p&gt;I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP.  I&apos;ve set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP.  Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that&apos;s the core source of my issues.  San Francisco would be nice, but I&apos;m willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.&lt;p&gt;If you know someone who can help, please reach out.  If you don&apos;t, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.&lt;p&gt;I can be contacted at teej.murphy@gmail.com or by phone (410) 236 - 2894&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN.  You guys are the best.</text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>If by &apos;silent crashes&apos; you mean the process dies leaving no trace in Rubyland you might want deep OS/C++ expertise moreso than Ruby...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)</title><text>Hacker News -&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters.  We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m in a very sticky situation.  Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing.  It&apos;s silently crashing without leaving a trace.  It&apos;s getting into some hard to reproduce states.  The situation is not looking good.&lt;p&gt;And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.&lt;p&gt;I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP.  I&apos;ve set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP.  Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that&apos;s the core source of my issues.  San Francisco would be nice, but I&apos;m willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.&lt;p&gt;If you know someone who can help, please reach out.  If you don&apos;t, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.&lt;p&gt;I can be contacted at teej.murphy@gmail.com or by phone (410) 236 - 2894&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN.  You guys are the best.</text></story>