Incidents
Blameless postmortems from production: the timeline, what actually caused it, and the follow-ups that shipped afterwards.
Nothing matches that combination
Filters stack, so two narrow picks often come up empty even when each has results on its own.
The Admission Gate Denied an Image Built from a Fork
An image built from a fork by a misconfigured pipeline in a sandbox account reached a production cluster and was denied at admission. Under the old setup it would have run, and nobody would have known.
A Regional Control-Plane Failure Took a Payments API Offline
- Sev1
- A few hours
- Reliability
- Architecture
- 08 Sept 2026
A money-movement API ran in one AWS region for years. A regional control-plane incident took it offline for hours with nowhere to fail over to. The fix was idempotency first, then a second region.