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This title is instant PTSD flashback - at one place I worked there was a system that would order events by their timestamps and multiple downstream systems would rely on that.

One day, I fixed an issue in the message producer that was causing the routine to take unreasonable amount of time and resources so that latency went from 1s to ~50ms.

Three hours later P1 is raised and the entire architecture had to be refactored. I still have the screenshot of the latency graph saved somewhere :)