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When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creep

February 13, 2026·16 min·1 clip

Brian Teller reveals how a GitHub protection rule meant to block abuse started blocking legitimate users without warning.

This episode of Ship It Weekly explores how safety systems can backfire in DevOps, covering incidents like GitHub's abuse defenses blocking legitimate traffic, Kubernetes permissions enabling RCE, and compliance scope expansions. Host Brian Teller provides practical insights and real-world examples to help engineers reassume their assumptions and improve system reliability.

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