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The Outage Was Designed Six Meetings Ago

Name: The Outage Was Designed Six Meetings Ago
Uploaded: 2026-06-24T03:44:03Z
Description: Tiny CTO explains why the recent production outage wasn't a sudden failure, but a predictable outcome of past architecture decisions and meeting compromises.

Tiny CTO explains why the recent production outage wasn't a sudden failure, but a predictable outcome of past architecture decisions and meeting compromises.

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[Junior Developer] Production is down, but we followed the road map.

[Tiny CTO] You approved the outage. You just called it phase two. The warning was renamed, deprioritized, and shipped. The chaos was predictable.

[Junior Developer] So, the postmortem is a prequel?

[Voiceover] tinycto.tv [music] The system remembers. Ha.