How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought Down Canva

The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident. Brendan Humphreys, Canva’s CTO, acknowledges: On November 12, 2024, Canva experienced a critical outage that affected the availability of canva.com. From 9:08 AM UTC to approximately 10:00 … Read more