Ep 4 — Failure Stories
Three real production disasters from three different operations, serial numbers filed off: the ghosts (an army of anonymous visitors sharing one blank ID), the stampede (a push campaign that DDoS’d its own accounts database), and the boss (the incident that was the lead engineer’s own migration). The fixes were all small — that’s the point.
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