#IncidentResponse

Ephemeral Containers: The Secret Weapon for Debugging Live Production Pods

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Introduction You deploy an app, things look healthy — then an error surface: slow responses, mysterious connection resets, a memory leak. The usual options are ugly: restart the pod and lose state, attach a sidecar after the fact, or reproduce the bug in staging (which might not reproduce). Enter ephemeral containers — a lightweight, on-demand … Read more

☁️ When the Cloud Stumbles: Deep Dive into the October 2025 AWS Outage — Real Impact, Root Cause, and How to Build for Resilience

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🚨 The Outage That Shook the Cloud Even the most reliable systems can stumble. On October 19–20, 2025, Amazon Web Services—arguably the backbone of the modern internet—experienced a widespread outage in its us-east-1 region.It began quietly: a few elevated error rates on DNS resolution and control-plane requests. Within minutes, that subtle tremor rippled outward, toppling … Read more