Postmortem: A Retry Without a Deadline Took Down Staging
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You get paged at 02:14 because staging stopped answering health checks, and the graph looks like a cliff. Postgres connections sit at the pool ceiling, and every worker logs the same timeout you thought you had already handled. The deploy from yesterday still looks green in CI, which is the part th…
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- 2026-09-17 05:10 · DEV Community — AI
Postmortem: A Retry Without a Deadline Took Down Staging