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GRAVEYARD OF SHAME // INCIDENT POST-MORTEMS
Every catastrophic failure is sovereign data. We do not bury errors; we catalog them into unyielding architecture.
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$40k AWS bill in 2 hours
Autoscaling loop plus unbounded retry storm without exponential backoff. Fix: hard budget limits, concurrency backpressure. [FAIL_TRACE_0x02]
Dropped production DB, no snapshot
Active terminal tab mismatch between staging and prod. Fix: colored prompt environments, mandatory typed confirmation, continuous PITR. [FAIL_TRACE_0x03]
TLS Wildcard cert expired on a Sunday
Manual certbot renewal calendar task forgotten. Fix: automated ACME edge renewal with 30/7/1-day multi-channel alerting.