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Post-Mortem Lab
Break it yourself.
One real failure per episode: Ariane 5, Therac-25, Knight Capital. I rebuild the exact mechanism as code, you trigger the bug in your browser, then we fix it and prove the fix with a test.
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Season 1
| Ref | Subject | The one-line version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| EP-00 | Launch | Why rebuild disasters at all | Published |
| EP-01 | Ariane 51996 | A 64-bit number squeezed into 16 bits | In progress |
| EP-02 | Mars Climate Orbiter1999 | Pounds on one side, newtons on the other | Planned |
| EP-03 | Patriot missile, Dhahran1991 | A clock that drifted a third of a second | Planned |
| EP-04 | Therac-251985–87 | A race condition in a radiation machine | Planned |
| EP-05 | Knight Capital2012 | A reused feature flag, $440M in 45 minutes | Planned |
| EP-06 | Cloudflare outage2019 | One regex took down a global network | Planned |
| EP-07 | CrowdStrike2024 | A config file that crashed 8.5M machines | Planned |
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