Postmortem: I Got Fired for a Production Outage in Java 26 Apps and How I Bounced Back

At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in Q3 2023, I pushed a misconfigured connection pool update to 26 production Java microservices, taking down 89% of our customer-facing traffic for 47 minutes. I was fired 72 hours later. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now ...