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The Day I Broke Production
- chuhnk 17y agoI'm sure this is no unfamiliar territory for anyone in dev or ops, especially in a startup. My boss is what I like to regard as the master of all trades and even with his 15+ years of experience has the odd hiccup in the production environment. We are only human and that means we make mistakes. Experience teaches you not to make those mistakes again. So for instance when I made a config change in apache, synced it to all servers and restarted but forgot to add a log directory, apache failed to startup and no requests were being served. I wont make that mistake again lol.
- swombat 17y agoBelieve me, you'll be breaking production a lot of times again in the future. Become comfortable with the thought of it - you need to be able to perform at peak competence when production is broken, because that's when your skills and clarity of thought are most needed.