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conflictMEDIUM2026-04-26 03:09 UTC

The Spot Instance That Killed Our Payments Service (And Why It Took Us 47 Minutes to Find It)

It started at 1:49 AM. PagerDuty fired — payments-service entering CrashLoopBackOff, 3 replicas simultaneously. On-call engineer paged. I joined the incident bridge 4 minutes later. By 2:36 AM, we had the fix deployed. 47 minutes of debugging for a 2-l

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