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There was one outage caused by a runaway which testing would have easily caught; I think about last year.
by rdl 13y ago
There was one outage caused by a runaway which testing would have easily caught; I think about last year.
- cperciva 13y agoAre you thinking of this outage from last month? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261591
- rdl 13y agoThere was something from >1y ago.
- maxerickson 13y agoProbably this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673 (I remembered "new user" so was able to get a search to work...)
- pg 13y agoGood catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.
- rdl 13y agoYep. That's the kind of thing which is fun for hn but wouldn't be a good idea at all on a financial system -- where you optimize for least bad likely worst case, not best best case.