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Robinhood 2020: The Leap-Year Bug and Capacity Failures During a Market Surge

Robinhood's March 2020 outages were widely rumored to involve a leap-year bug, but the company and FINRA identified overloaded infrastructure, cascading failures, and inadequate capacity planning instead.

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AWS Kinesis 2020: The Scaling Event That Took Down Cognito and Other Services

AWS’s November 2020 Kinesis outage began with a modest capacity addition that pushed front-end servers over operating-system thread limits and cascaded into dependent AWS services.

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