Incident Library

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Figma

Figma · figma

1 case · 2020

Root cause Software defect
Component PostgreSQL vacuumDatabase
Contributing factor Harmful manual actionOverlapping failures
Symptom Database overloadLock contention or deadlockService outage

Cases

  1. IL-0486 Figma's PostgreSQL 9 database on RDS slowed under high write IOPS and lock contention until the site was unavailableFigma · 2020

    Root cause Software defect