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Hats off to you for an honest postmortem and your capable handling of a difficult situation. The only remark I would offer is with respect to sleep deprivation—
by idlewords 3y ago
Hats off to you for an honest postmortem and your capable handling of a difficult situation. The only remark I would offer is with respect to sleep deprivation—when you're the only person who can fix a problem, there's no shame in trading some additional outage time for a fresh mind. Though it feels weird to go nap when all the klaxons are blaring, problems are too easy to compound under the combination of adrenaline and inadequate sleep.
- cperciva 3y agoDon't worry, I had a couple naps in there. "This seems to be running smoothly but it will take several more hours; I'll set my alarm to wake me up in two hours and have a nap" is part of why I didn't notice the second step was unnecessarily I/O bound.
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- gus_massa 3y agoIIUC the process had a few steps were you only had to wait while data was transferred or processed for long times. They were probably useful to take a nap or eat or just drink more coffee.