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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
- Platform/SRE — Skip
- CI/CD — Learn: The 2012 Knight Capital incident remains a canonical case study on the dangers of inconsistent deployment across nodes and untested code paths — useful for grounding release-safety practices and deployment checklists.
- Leader — Learn: A well-known cautionary tale about how a botched deployment caused $440M in losses in 45 minutes; useful context when making the case for deployment safeguards, progressive delivery, and automated rollback standards.
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