In Buildkite’s Aug 22 outage post-mortem, I read the (refreshingly honest and transparent) story of a cascading set of failures with a root cause of poor change-management. An interesting takeaway from the story is that a large amount of the failures are unique to the “cloud” / IaaS platform design.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.funkypenguin.co.nz/postmortem/dont-let-your-judgement-be-clouded/