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Tom and Jamie talk through the postmortems of outages that have affected high profile sites.
In November 2020, Coinbase had a problem while rotating their internal TLS certificates and accidentally unleashed a huge amount of traffic on some internal services. This was a refreshingly non-database related incident that led to an interesting discussion about the future of infrastructure as code, the limits of human code review, and how many load […]
The Downtime Project
Tom and Jamie talk through the postmortems of outages that have affected high profile sites.