Q2 2026 in review

Q2 ended yesterday. Three things shipped, two slipped, one lesson that cost the team a Friday evening.

Shipped

The rate limiter rewrite, the new billing dashboard, and the docs overhaul. All three landed inside their target weeks; the rate limiter shipped two days early.

Slipped

Multi-region replication moved to Q4; we underestimated the design work needed to make conflict resolution acceptable for transactional workloads. The CLI rewrite slipped to October for the same reason — the design constraints were heavier than expected.

Learned

A single misconfigured load-balancer health check probe pulled an entire region offline for 12 minutes. The probe was supposed to return 200 for healthy and timeout for unhealthy; instead it returned 200 for healthy and 503 for "in maintenance." The load balancer treated 503 as healthy.

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