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Mar 27, 2025

The Robinhood-GameStop Meltdown: When a Trading App Broke the Market

In late January 2021, as an army of retail investors from Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets forum rallied around GameStop …
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Mar 26, 2025

The Day GitHub Forgot Everyone's Password: The Great Authentication Collapse of 2021

On April 16, 2021, at approximately 10:45 AM Pacific Time, software developers around the world suddenly found …
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Mar 26, 2025

Netflix Database Disaster: How a Routine Migration Almost Took Down Streaming

It was supposed to be just another Tuesday night for Netflix’s 220 million subscribers. Some were settling in for …
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Mar 26, 2025

Spotify's Kubernetes Meltdown: When the Music Stopped

It started as a seemingly minor alert in Spotify’s Stockholm operations center. At 3:17 AM CET on February 8, …
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Mar 26, 2025

The Evolution of Ransomware: From Nuisance to Global Threat

Ransomware has transformed from a relatively unsophisticated nuisance to one of the most significant cybersecurity …
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Mar 26, 2025

The Great Slack Shutdown: When Remote Work Ground to a Halt

On the first Monday of 2021, as millions of remote workers returned from holiday breaks ready to tackle their new year …
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