Production Failure Playbook 30 incidents that broke production — and how to make sure they never happen again.

Production Failures Playbook

30 Real Incidents That Broke Production (And How to Never Repeat Them)

This is not a course.
This is not theory.
This is not “best practices”.

This is a collection of real incidents that actually broke production — with timelines, root causes, financial impact, and the exact lessons learned.

Each case includes:
• What broke
• Why it broke
• How long it took to recover
• How much it cost
• What we changed to make sure it never happened again

You will learn:
✔ Why “it works on staging” means nothing
✔ Which failures don’t show up in monitoring
✔ Which small mistakes create massive incidents
✔ Why most “postmortems” are useless

This is for:
– Backend engineers responsible for production
– Tech leads and staff engineers
– Anyone who has been paged at 3 AM

If this prevents a single outage, it paid for itself.