Postmortem: How a Misconfigured KEDA 2.14 Scaler and Kubernetes 1.32 HPA Caused a 4-Hour Outage During 2026 Super Bowl

At 6:12 PM ET on February 8, 2026, 14 minutes into the Super Bowl LX halftime show, our real-time ad bidding platform serving 42 million concurrent viewers collapsed under a 12x traffic spike. The root cause? A silent incompatibility between KEDA 2.1...