TL;DR A completely unrelated, already-reviewed feature branch quietly broke every deployment to production for most of a working day. Not because its own code was wrong, but because of how our platform’s config-style metadata (permission sets, layouts) gets deployed as whole files instead of diffs. The kicker: while this was happening, several other legitimate deploys succeeded and posted green checkmarks…
TL;DR A Salesforce automation responsible for creating a downstream record silently stopped working for a subset of incoming records — no errors, no failed jobs, nothing in any log. The incident involved a flow that had been deliberately deactivated months earlier in favor of a replacement, and that replacement had an unrelated timing bug that let records slip through without…
TL;DR A WordPress site I run on a small AWS box got hacked through a core vulnerability I hadn’t patched yet. What started as “the site won’t load” turned into a multi-hour mess involving a botched update, some rogue admin accounts, a handful of disguised backdoors, and the thing that actually made this hard: a background process that kept quietly…