A client's Datadog bill quietly grew to $38K/month — nearly double their actual compute spend. The culprit wasn't one big mistake but a dozen small defaults nobody revisited.
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- A client's codebase had impressive test coverage numbers. Then I introduced a deliberate bug and watched every single test pass. Coverage was measuring execution, not verification.
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- A client's multi-tenant SaaS had menus, routes, and role checks — all in the browser. The API behind it would happily serve any tenant's data to anyone with a valid session token. It took eight months for someone to notice.
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- A client's internal utility package started as a convenience. Two years later, it had 47 dependents, undocumented side effects, and a change to one date formatter broke invoice generation for three services.
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- A SaaS billing system locked up every invoice cycle. The cause was two transactions grabbing the same rows in opposite order — a textbook deadlock hiding behind a once-a-month batch job.
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