Why a forgotten RDS replica added $8,600 to one AWS bill
The finance lead forwarded the AWS bill on a Monday morning with three question marks in the subject...
May 19, 20266 min read0 reactions0 comments
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May 3, 2026Postmortem: A Vector DB Latency Spike in Pinecone 2.0 Caused Our RAG Pipeline to Time Out for 1k Users
Postmortem: A Vector DB Latency Spike in Pinecone 2.0 Caused Our RAG Pipeline to Time Out...
May 3, 20263 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Apr 30, 2026War Story: How We Survived a 10x Spike in LLM API Requests with Cloudflare Workers and OpenAI 2026
At 14:17 UTC on March 12, 2026, our OpenAI API p99 latency hit 11.2 seconds, error rates spiked to...
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Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection: How to Catch Surprise Bills Before They Hit
Cloud bills don't spike gradually. They spike overnight. A misconfigured NAT gateway starts routing...
Apr 6, 202619 min read0 reactions4 comments
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Dec 10, 2025What Happens If Spike Arrest Is Set to 10pm but Traffic Spikes to 100 Requests at Once?
Introduction Imagine this: You’re running a flash sale. Suddenly—BOOM!—100 users hit your...
Dec 10, 20253 min read6 reactions0 comments