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METRICS GraphQL resolver storm: the dashboard that took down the API A new internal analytics dashboard's nested GraphQL query fanned out into thousands of resolver calls per request, and it shared an API pool with paying customers. Arjun Mehta · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min
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06 Jul
ALERTING

The rate limiter that rate-limited itself

Our own rate-limiting service depended on a shared Redis instance that it also, ironically, helped saturate — a feedback loop...

Lena Park Jul 6 2026 3 min
03 Jul
KUBERNETES

Spot reclamation cascade: losing a third of the fleet at once

A regional spot-price spike reclaimed a third of our worker fleet within 90 seconds, and our scale-up response was too slow to...

Priya Raman Jul 3 2026 3 min
01 Jul
INCIDENT

The rolling deploy that dropped connections for ninety seconds

A connection-draining setting that worked fine at low traffic caused real dropped requests once volume grew past what the old...

Lena Park Jul 1 2026 3 min
24 Jun
ALERTING

mTLS cert rotation: the sidecar that stopped trusting itself

A service mesh cert rotation left old and new root CAs out of sync across sidecars for four minutes, and every cross-service...

Priya Raman Jun 24 2026 3 min
17 Jun
KUBERNETES

The health check that flapped 400 pods

A liveness probe with too-tight thresholds started killing healthy pods under normal GC pauses, and Kubernetes dutifully...

Lena Park Jun 17 2026 3 min
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