System Failure Case Studies
CS 432: Databases
Case Studies
This module examines real-world database and infrastructure failures. Students are expected to read the post-mortem reports before the discussion sessions.
| Company / Event | Year | Technical Topic | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Atlassian | 2022 | Cloud Outage | Report |
| AWS US-EAST-1 Outage | 2025 | DNS Race Condition in DynamoDB | Report |
| Cloudflare Global Outage | 2025 | Configuration Failure in Distributed Cloud Infrastructure | Report |
| UPI(NPCI) | 2025 | Distributed Transaction Failure | Report |
| Google Authentication Outage | 2020 | Automation Failure in Authentication Database | Report |