Kevin Fang

Kevin Fang makes videos about real technology failures. He reads the postmortems that companies publish after something goes wrong, then explains them in short, humorous videos.

Each video tells the story of one incident, such as a deleted database, a bug that wiped files or an outage that took down a major service. He explains the technical cause in plain terms, then shows the chain of small decisions that led to it. The style is light, meme filled and quick, usually around ten to fifteen minutes. He is careful to explain the technical cause rather than simply mock the people involved.

Some highlights include:

The story of a developer who accidentally deleted a production database, and the scramble to recover it.

An account of how a single line of code nearly caused serious damage across the internet.

An explanation of how GitHub’s database systems failed in 43 seconds.

The channel has over 200,000 subscribers.

Good engineers study failure. Every one of these stories ends with lessons about testing, backups and designing systems that fail safely. That habit matters in every branch of engineering, from bridges to aircraft. This channel connects most directly to software engineering, site reliability and cybersecurity. It shows that real systems are messy, and that clear thinking under pressure is a skill worth building.