Includes all post related to the technical difficulty – let’s speak plainly series.
Inspired by the 2021 Meta outage – The day communication itself became the incident It started like any other morning at the city’s emergency coordination center. Calls came in, dispatchers relayed instructions, and fire, ambulance, and police units fanned out across the grid. Then, almost imperceptibly, something shifted. A few responders began reporting silence on […]
Ep.05 – No One Can Reach Dispatch Read More »
Inspired by the 2024 CrowdStrike Channel File 291 incident – Imagine a precision-parts factory, where every process is automated. Each morning, headquarters sends a digital blueprint describing exactly how the assembly line should build the next batch of parts — where to place each bolt, how many positions to fill, and in what sequence. Normally,
Ep.02 – A stalled assembly line Read More »
Inspired by 3 related and unrelated Anthropic incidents in 2026 – Imagine you manage a large apartment building. Dozens of floors, hundreds of tenants, and a maze of shared infrastructure behind every wall. Your goal: keep life smooth. Hot showers run, faucets flow, and everyone trusts the water will be there when they turn the
Ep.01 – The Water Is Out Again Read More »
Inspired by the Oct 2026 Azure service disruption – Imagine you manage a large hotel. Your main revolving doors — the high-traffic entryways that connect guests to everything inside — are like the Azure Front Door technology service in cloud terms. Through them, guests reach check-in desks, concierge, key access, dining reservations, spa bookings —
Ep.03 – The lobby doors are jammed Read More »
Inspired by the October 2026 AWS us-east-1 outage – Imagine a large hospital that updates its emergency contact list every hour. Suddenly, nobody can call the ER, security, or pharmacy — the whole hospital’s coordination grinds to a halt until someone manually restores the contact list. That’s essentially what happened inside AWS’s DNS automation: a
Ep.04 – A hospital contact list gone missing Read More »
