As I mentioned above, it IS written in journal style. As for your questions, you tell me? How could I know that the container would drop? What could I do to prevent it next time? Easy to say cluster everything, keep a warm standby, etc, but sometimes companies truly cannot afford it (or you can't convince them to afford it).
What I was hoping to share was how something gets handled when regardless of whether you tried to prevent it, could have prevented it, etc, things go bad and you have to make decisions. If you can learn something, think of something, not do something from reading my sad story, then I've done some good.
Andy