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Firebase Sept 28: a 2-line stale-flag cleanup crashed iOS apps on launch while dashboards stayed green firebase.blog · Oct 6 firebase.blog · Oct 6

Jane Street: weekend network maintenance exposed 6 bugs across glibc, Async, and their Kafka client blog.janestreet.com · Oct 5 blog.janestreet.com · Oct 5

GitHub Sept 23: planned DB maintenance, emergency failover, replicas that wouldn't resume surfingcomplexity.blog · Oct 4 surfingcomplexity.blog · Oct 4

Railway Sep 30: routing deploy raced schema migration → platform-wide 404s blog.railway.com · Oct 3 blog.railway.com · Oct 3

Buttondown Sep 9: shared pool saturation from worker scale-up + admin queries on primary buttondown.com · Oct 2 buttondown.com · Oct 2

When a DNS provider loses its own nameservers and gets back a SERVFAIL openprovider.com · Oct 2 openprovider.com · Oct 2

GitHub availability report: August 2026 github.blog · Oct 1 github.blog · Oct 1

Nebius us-central1: cooling loss, cold-start, in-region observability nebius.com · Sep 29 nebius.com · Sep 29

Inngest Sep 18: deletion cascades exhausted PgBouncer inngest.com · Sep 28 inngest.com · Sep 28

Cloudflare Nov 18 2025 outage: Bot Management feature file doubled blog.cloudflare.com · Sep 26 blog.cloudflare.com · Sep 26

Silent alerting: node down 14h because delivery failed twice andrelair-platform.github.io · Sep 25 andrelair-platform.github.io · Sep 25

GitHub Aug 17 outage: capacity failure, retry storms, and the work ahead github.blog · Sep 23 github.blog · Sep 23

RADAR: Catch gray failures with anomaly detection databricks.com · Sep 23 databricks.com · Sep 23

The alert that named a pod vluwte.nl · Sep 21 vluwte.nl · Sep 21

Saturation at GitHub: the saga continues surfingcomplexity.blog · Sep 21 surfingcomplexity.blog · Sep 21

When "technically online" isn't the same as working flowverify.co · Sep 21 flowverify.co · Sep 21

How to set meaningful SLOs: SLIs, error budgets & burn-rate alerts openobserve.ai · Sep 21 openobserve.ai · Sep 21

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