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I always remember the company who lost all it's assets in one day due to a deployment bug to one of their servers. They were a high frequency trading company, s

I always remember the company who lost all it's assets in one day due to a deployment bug to one of their servers. They were a high frequency trading company, so seconds/minutes to them were obscenely expensive. I feel a cold pit in my stomach putting myself in the shoes of the developer that did the `cap deploy` that day. Yikes!

0x0 10y ago
You're probably thinking of this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
- sergiotapia 10y ago
  That's the one. God damn, imagine wiping out your entire company. Jesus Christ. "Hey guys let's do a DB rollback, something went wrong."
mstade 10y ago
Are you talking about Knight Capital? A friend of mine worked for them when this went down. They were on holiday and obviously cut that short pretty much immediately. Not so much to go back to work, but rather to figure out the next career move as they very quickly realized this wasn't something you recover form. It was a pretty weird afternoon.