💥 Production Postmortems

Real-world outage stories and the lessons learned

Every Monday/Wednesday
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    How a Missing Database Index Took Down Our API for 3 Hours

    A production postmortem about a missing PostgreSQL index that caused cascading API failures. The debugging process and fix.
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    We Deployed to Production on a Friday — Here's What Happened

    A realistic production postmortem about a Friday deploy gone wrong. What broke, why, and the lessons learned.