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Why prod is down
- fhood 9y agoMy goodness, this is a work of art.
- davidspiess 9y agoIt's scary how relatable it is
- greatNespresso 9y agoIs that real ?
- dsr_ 9y agoYes, those are real words written by a real person, stored on a real server and delivered to you by a real Internet. A better question might be: "Is this really a copy of a letter written by a particular person to another particular person describing a particular incident?" to which the answer is "No." An even better question might be: "Do the problems outlined in this document really occur?" to which the answer is "Yes, frequently."
- gozur88 9y ago>Worst of all, our database is not backed up, so we lost our data backed up, but the backups don't work, so we lost our data sharded, so we lost our data twice NoSQL, so we're webscale, and we've been losing data for years Heh. What I keep running into at various companies: "Backed up, but for some reason the restore is going to take three days (if it works), and it will be faster to tap original sources. Why are we doing backups, then? Company policy.
- itsjustjoe 9y agoBecause backing up stuff is super easy, but no one actually tests restoring data until they need to do it live.
- apple4ever 9y agoWe'll do it live! We'll write it and we'll do it live!
- gozur88 9y agoIt adds to the excitement.
- Sgoettschkes 9y agoNo one ever got fired for doing backups. It's "industry standard" so if you don't do it, you'll be out of your job faster than the server which went down. Backups being actually restorable in a reasonable amount of time isn't "industry standard", so nobody cares.
- sdfjkl 9y agoThe underlined placeholders aren't inputs and cannot be filled out. Also missing are a few options on what to do, including: "Let it burn", "Throw more gasoline at it", and "Quit while you still have some sanity left".
- agotterer 9y agoSomewhat related, has anyone used gruntworks? Thoughts?
- MarkMMullin 9y agoWe failed over but there was nothing there so we can't fail back -- eek, we're dead :-)