← THE DATA DOG STORIES EPISODE 02 OF 10 WOLFY TALES ↗
Sunny Tuesday morning home office, Wolfy happily pushes a routine container build at laptop, coffee and tiny toy whale beside him

The Docker Disaster

Ten thousand users. One extremely fluffy avatar.

How the story begins

NarratorTuesday began with the dangerous promise of a simple frontend update. Wolfy watched the container build finish at 9:47 AM. The pipeline was green, the coffee was warm, and nothing on his calendar mentioned becoming the face of ten thousand customers.

WolfyClean build, successful push, healthy rollout. I could even eat breakfast while it is still technically breakfast. This is what people mean by work-life balance: a deployment completing before the toast achieves the texture of a roofing tile.

NarratorAt 9:53, his phone started vibrating across the desk. A minute later, the CTO asked why the login page featured somebody in a wolf costume. Wolfy opened the site. The toast became an entirely theoretical concern.

WolfyOh. That is my FurryCon 2025 photo. Heroic stance, tail up, very enthusiastic sign. I made that costume stitch by stitch. I absolutely did not make it the intended centerpiece of our customer login experience. What do I say first?

What happens next is your call. Play now ▸

How you play

  • Three decisions shape how Wolfy handles the incident, with composure, candor or curiosity.
  • Two endings, with different consequence scenes along each route.
  • Fourteen original anime-style paintings and an adaptive synthesized soundtrack.
  • Plays in 8–12 min, free in your browser with no download or account. Progress saves on your device.

All ten episodes

  1. 01The Midnight DeploymentThe moon has no maintenance window.
  2. 02The Docker DisasterTen thousand users. One extremely fluffy avatar.
  3. 03The Cloud Convention CollisionOne wolf. Two commitments. No spare bandwidth.
  4. 04The On-Call HowlingIt is always DNS. Sometimes it also barks.
  5. 05The Terraform Tail DisasterForty-seven controllers. One very unhappy tail.
  6. 06The Demo Day DisasterOne presentation. Two audiences. The wrong red light.
  7. 07The AI Assistant AwakeningIt learned your patterns. All of them.
  8. 08The Slack Bot BetrayalHelpful answers. Unexpectedly personal training data.
  9. 09The Password Manager PanicExcellent security. Inconvenient search results.
  10. 10The Observability MoonshotThe first warning was a very quiet tail.