Tiny CTO explains why the recent production outage wasn't a sudden failure, but a predictable outcome of past architecture decisions and meeting compromises.
Production is down, but we followed the road map.
You approved the outage. You just called it phase two. The warning was renamed, deprioritized, and shipped. The chaos was predictable.
So, the postmortem is a prequel?
tinycto.tv [music] The system remembers. Ha.
This pattern emerges when product managers push for rapid delivery without allocating buffer for non-functional requirements like scaling, caching, or failure handling.