A TinyCTO.tv technical parable about architectural root cause, systemic incidents, design trade-offs, resilience gaps. The episode shows that Some incidents are not caused by broken components; they are caused by designs that make failure the default path.
"Which component caused the incident?"
"The component behaved correctly inside a bad design."
"Every safe path had been optimized away."
"Some incidents are not component failures; they are design choices arriving on time."
Architecture diagrams don't show human error or latency.