Production Incidents

Famous outages, reconstructed as interactive replays.

Simplified, educational reconstructions based on publicly discussed patterns — not verbatim postmortems.

A routine maintenance command took the whole platform off the internet

An automated scaling activity exhausted network capacity in the largest AWS region

A single regular expression pushed CPU to 100% across the entire network

A 43-second network partition led to over a day of database inconsistency

A schema migration silently exhausted the database connection pool

A cache stampede after a cold restart overwhelmed the primary datastore