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Well the DB admin had just removed the index a few minutes before, and immediately the API times spiked. When you remove an index there is exactly one risk --s
by kzhahou 11y ago
Well the DB admin had just removed the index a few minutes before, and immediately the API times spiked. When you remove an index there is exactly one risk --slowdown-- and that's precisely what the admin noticed.
- vruiz 11y agoThat might be it, but by "on-call engineer" I understood it was someone else.
- kzhahou 11y agoSure. I picture it as: "Hey {on-call-engineer}, we're seeing a huge slowdown all of the sudden." "Was there any change in the last few minutes?" "We just deleted a database index." "Yup, that'll do it. Gotta restore it."