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I think my message is, don't lose sight on the mission of the software that you're shipping. My story is, I found a bug in some new equipment that would've bro
by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
I think my message is, don't lose sight on the mission of the software that you're shipping.
My story is, I found a bug in some new equipment that would've broken 911 calls. While other engineers were just trying to reboot random equipment to make the problem go away, I insisted we pause to figure it out. Turns out, due to a couple of bugs, the new network equipment could only handle a couple of 911 calls before failing.
This was for a national cellular network... so 911 was kind of important.
- Aperocky 3y agoDid you get recognition for recognizing the problem and dealing with it?
- klysm 3y agoGoing to go out on a limb and say no because it didn’t generate revenue
- eastbound 3y agoWere you working on Android? It is famous for failing to call 911 in emergency situations.
- c4ptnjack 3y agoAdditionally, I assume this was on the cellular network completely and not on the dispatcher/rf side of things?