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My hypothesis is that it's a game company and all of the focus was on the game code. The lowly job of maintaining the state server was punted off to the "junio
by jakejake 14y ago
My hypothesis is that it's a game company and all of the focus was on the game code. The lowly job of maintaining the state server was punted off to the "junior dev" just out of school. Nobody was paying attention. It was something that just ran.
They paid the price of ignoring what was actually the most critical part of their business.
- grey-area 14y agoSounds convincing. I guess now they'll realise their mistake though as the servers are critical to their business.
- ptaipale 14y agoI disagree slightly. If you're a game company, your most critical part of the business is the game. Even if you have a rock-solid database management, backup, auditing etc process, if your game is not playable, you won't have any data that you could lose by having a DB admin mis-click. Still, not handling your next-most-critical data properly is monumentally stupid and a collective failure of everyone who should have known.