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In case of GitLab, the incident was caused by a human error, and they worked hard to fix it afterwards. GitHub and DigitalOcean (to name the ones recently menti
by antisemiotic 7y ago
In case of GitLab, the incident was caused by a human error, and they worked hard to fix it afterwards. GitHub and DigitalOcean (to name the ones recently mentioned on HN) have delibrately set up automated kill switches with no possibility of appeal, sans crying on Twitter. Sure, when data is lost then it may not matter in the end, but I'm still more sympathetic to the former.
- majkinetor 7y agoIndeed, how GitLab handled the incident was exemplary. That is entirely different topic.
- dsumenkovic 7y agoHere's the blog post about it https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/ https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-...