Explore real-world failure scenarios and learn practical solutions for running Spring applications in production through this insightful conference talk from Spring I/O 2022. Delve into issues such as health check-related service terminations, lost Micrometer metrics, stuck circuit breakers, and out-of-memory errors caused by unbounded queues. Gain valuable insights on how these problems can bypass staging environments and make their way into production. Discover practical tips and strategies to prevent these nightmarish scenarios from affecting your own applications. Topics covered include Spring Boot health checks, thread pool management, Tomcat metrics, custom health indicators, circuit breaker behavior, and effective troubleshooting techniques. Benefit from the speaker's experience and avoid common pitfalls in Spring application deployment and management.