<ul><li>Our backend experienced a catastrophic failure during production due to a new feature release.</li><li>The feature allowed users to bulk import data, but it caused the PostgreSQL server to reach its connection limit.</li><li>As a result, all queries timed out, leading to the login service, user dashboard, and health checks being unresponsive.</li><li>The downtime lasted for 47 minutes, marking the longest outage our startup has ever faced.</li></ul>

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