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🫆 New episode every weekend

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Real outages, breaches and bugs, explained in Tamil. What broke, why it broke, and what we can learn.

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Episodes

EP 4 · React / Next.js · 3 December 2025 From React App to Shell Access: The React2Shell Vulnerability A maximum-severity bug in React Server Components let an unauthenticated attacker run code on the server by sending one crafted request. This is how data became a command. ▶ Video · 📝 3 min read · 🔗 3 resources EP 3 · OpenAI · 20 March 2023 The ChatGPT Redis Bug: How a Tiny Async Race Condition Exposed User Data A cancelled request left a reply sitting on a shared Redis connection. The next user on that connection received it. A few lines of async code leaked chat titles and some billing details. ▶ Video · 📝 3 min read · 🔗 2 resources EP 2 · AWS · 19–20 October 2025 AWS Outage on DynamoDB 2025: A Race Condition in DNS Automation Two automation workers raced each other, an old plan overwrote a new one, and DynamoDB's regional endpoint ended up with an empty DNS record. Half the cloud noticed. ▶ Video · 📝 3 min read · 🔗 1 resource EP 1 · Cloudflare · 18 November 2025 Cloudflare Outage 2025: How One Database Permission Change Broke the Internet A routine permissions change made a database query return duplicate rows. A config file doubled in size, hit a hard limit in the proxy, and took ChatGPT, X and Spotify down with it. ▶ Video · 📝 3 min read · 🔗 1 resource

Every episode has the video, a written post and the official sources it is based on.