2026-05-15 INC-0001 Crash Interview exercise for μ-text troubleshooting candidates. 2026-05-16 INC-0002 The Lockup Andy's first real incident — three processes deadlocked in a dependency cycle. 2026-05-17 INC-0003 Race Condition Two workers overwrote the same customer state — Andy's first overnight incident. 2026-05-18 INC-0004 Cache Poisoning Edge caches return tenant data to the wrong clients — isolation failure or something worse. 2026-05-19 INC-0005 Starvation A retry consumer that never crashes, never blocks, and never runs. 2026-05-20 INC-0006 Livelock Two recovery workers, both running flat out, neither finishing anything. 2026-05-21 INC-0007 Priority Inversion The release gate waits on the garbage collector, and the garbage collector never gets to run. 2026-05-22 INC-0008 Split Brain A partition left two halves of the control plane each certain they were in charge. 2026-05-23 INC-0009 Infinite Recursion The repair service found a defect in its own repair, and then found a defect in that. 2026-05-24 INC-0010 Byzantine Fault Five attestation replicas, five different histories, every one of them correctly signed. 2026-05-25 INC-0011 Man in the Middle Four sessions, three pinned fingerprints, and a conversation that was never direct. 2026-05-26 INC-0012 Replay Four authorisations, four good signatures, and one of them was ten minutes old. 2026-05-27 INC-0013 Covert Channel The verified channel went quiet, so the message came through the retry delays instead. 2026-05-28 INC-0014 Backdoor A hook that runs after the harness has finished deciding it is sound. 2026-05-29 INC-0015 Sandbox Escape Four attempts to leave a container in one night, and one of them was not an attempt. 2026-05-30 INC-0016 Dead Man Switch Four armed switches, one unrenewed deadline, and only one order that works.