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I accidentally deleted Levels.fyi's entire back end server stack last week

• dovys 1y ago
  From past experience, CloudFormation is full of footguns that if you don't take time to understand them, you'll loose a foot and often in production. Most notably, when a rollback kicks in there is no way to stop it. And it largely locks you out until it's finished.
• Metalnem 1y ago
  Kudos for publishing this, but why is it on Reddit instead of the Levels.fyi blog (https://www.levels.fyi/blog/ https://www.levels.fyi/blog/)?
  • unsnap_biceps 1y ago
    Just to be clear, I have no affiliation with levels.fyi, so I have no idea why they decided to post on Reddit rather than their blog. I just thought it was a interesting post to share.
    • Metalnem 1y ago
      Thanks for posting this—it's super interesting! I was just curious why the author of the Reddit post didn't publish it on their own blog, since it's definitely worth preserving there.
• pchangr 1y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20250707213532/https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1lu2ygi/i_accidentally_deleted_levelsfyis_entire_backend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250707213532/https://www.reddi...