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🟠 One customer's builds got stuck in a failover nightmare while Buildkite's database decided to play musical chairs with production data. They're 'investigating' — which is corporate speak for 'we're reading the logs and pretending this wasn't preventable.'

⏰ 1h ago It's bad spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Increased latency and error rates

// Status page says

Oct 28 , 23:49 UTC Resolved - We identified that the majority of the impact was for a single customer and was caused by a database failover. We are investigating the cause and we will work with the impacted customer. Oct 28 , 23:17 UTC Monitoring - We saw increased latency and error rates in REST and GraphQL for a subset of our customers starting around 22:30 UTC unt

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.buildkitestatus.com/incidents/z1x5k3cyrctv

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