So, how do you find these kinds of bugs? The only way you can catch them before they bite you in production is to run your own longevity tests. If you can, set aside a developer machine. Have it run JMeter, Marathon, or some other load-testing tool. Don’t hit the system hard; just keep driving requests all the time. (Also, be sure to have the scripts slack for a few hours a day to simulate the slow period during the middle of the night. That will catch connection pool and firewall timeouts.)
