Another late-night emergency call. Same client as last week. Processing ground to a halt, but why get us involved? We’ve gone through everything before…the logs, the metrics, the config, the dashboards…there is nothing.

This can’t be an unbounded query or a caching blunder, it’s bigger than that. Solving this will require a holistic approach and deeper probing, but where do we turn when nodes are picked off one by one?

The system will crumble around us. Help us crack our most insidious mystery to date. The Oban detectives are going back to work. But first, coffee.