Patrick Hamann's posts

We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed

Our entire event-driven platform ran through a single message broker, which made it a single point of failure. So we added a second one. This is the story of building an event load balancer, the queuing theory behind it, and the final chaos test where we turned off Pub/Sub in production and nobody noticed.

Patrick Hamann

Mike Fisher

August 11, 2026

So good, you’ll break things on purpose

Ready for modern incident management? Book a call with one of our experts today.

We’d love to talk to you about

All-in-one incident management
Our unmatched speed of deployment
Why we’re loved by users and easily adopted
How we work for the whole organization