{
  "id": 612760,
  "title": "A stuck Postgres lock took my whole site down. Here's the one-line cause and the fix.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/a-stuck-postgres-lock-took-my-whole-site-down-heres-the-one-line",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T23:03:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/extensionsmarket/a-stuck-postgres-lock-took-my-whole-site-down-heres-the-one-line-cause-and-the-fix-59am"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "My site started returning HTTP 500 on every request today. Not a slow page, not one broken route. The entire app was down. Here's what it turned out to be and how I stopped it from happening again, in case it saves someone a bad afternoon. The symptom Every request returned a bare Internal Server Error . The app container was technically \"online\" in my host's dashboard, but nothing rendered.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}