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20 November 2025

  • curprev 03:1503:15, 20 November 2025 PC talk contribs 5,212 bytes +5,212 Created page with " 500px It started with a crash.
Not a small one. A production outage that took down half the pipeline at 2 AM.
No warnings, no smoke — just silence. One dangling pointer in a C++ service corrupted a message queue.
We rolled back, restarted, patched, and prayed.
The fix took one hour.
The recovery took three days.
The trust took months. That week changed how I thought about system design.
It was the week I picked up Rust.
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