Real-World Case Studies: Catastrophic Outages & High-Reliability Patterns
Senior analysis of landmark production outages and reliability architectures — Facebook 2021 BGP/DNS global collapse, AWS Kinesis 2020 OS thread exhaustion, Stripe Idempotency-Key state machine, Discord Go to Rust GC tail latency rewrite, and Graceful Degradation tiers.
Real-World Case Studies: Petabyte Data Stores & Zero-Downtime Migrations
Comprehensive Staff-level architectural breakdown of 8 landmark petabyte storage engines and zero-downtime database migrations — Dropbox Magic Pocket, Discord ScyllaDB, YouTube Vitess, GitHub MySQL 8, Pinterest 64-bit sharding, Instagram Rocksandra, Figma multiplayer, and WhatsApp Erlang.