Today’s public incident writeup comes courtesy of Brendan Humphries, the CTO of Canva. Like so many other incidents that came before, this is another tale of saturation, where the failure mode involves overload. There’s a lot of great detail in Humpries’s write-up, and I recommend you read it directly in addition to this post. What happened at Canva Trigger: deploying a new version of a page The trigger for this incident was Canva deploying a new version of their editor page. It’s notable that t...