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Postmortem-level breakdowns of major technical failures — what failed, why it propagated, and the assumptions that made it inevitable.

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The Command That Wasn't There

A blank field deleted UniSuper's entire Google Cloud infrastructure — $125B in assets, 647,000 members, two weeks offline. The system didn't fail. It interpreted nothing as an instruction.

Cloud 5 min