The Practitioner
One practitioner shares a real production challenge, incident, or lesson learned — unfiltered.
Community for Security Practitioners
WhatBroke
Production Stories from Security Engineers
A practitioner-led community where security engineers share real production stories — the incidents, trade-offs, failures, and lessons that shaped the systems they run today.
Honest conversations about production. The choices, the trade-offs, and the lessons that shape the systems engineering teams actually run.
Why WhatBroke
The lessons that matter most rarely come from success.
The most valuable engineering lessons rarely come from success stories. They come from outages, security incidents, unexpected failures, difficult trade-offs, and the moments when systems behave in ways nobody anticipated.
Yet those stories are often missing from conference talks and technical blogs. WhatBroke exists to create a space where practitioners can openly share what happened, what they learned, and how they would approach the problem differently today.
Because every production system has a story. And every engineer has something worth sharing.
How Every Session Works
A sharp format. Focused on what actually happened.
The Architecture
We explore the decisions, failures, trade-offs, and operational realities behind the story.
The Takeaway
Attendees leave with practical lessons and ideas they can apply in their own environments.
Founding Session
Coming up.
The first WhatBroke session looks at AI agents running in production — how teams are handling identity, access, and security boundaries for autonomous systems that take real actions.
Event #1
See the eventAI Agents in Production: Identity & Security
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