GitLab Database Incident – Live Report

Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by FireBeyond on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:57PM (#13537794)

There are very, very few situations in life where there's not enough time to take a time-out, sitrep, or checklist.

I work in EMS when not in IT, and even bringing a trauma or cardiac arrest patient into the Emergency Room, there is still time to review and consider.

If there's time in Emergency Medicine, there's time in IT.

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Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by flukus on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:13PM (#13538172)

I worked in software to help manage this for a while. There are still checklists but they are produced ahead of schedule. Every instrument a nurse takes off the tray is counted and then checked at the end for instance.

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Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by settings on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:34PM (#13538271)

Delivery room experience: before stitching my wife, the OB counted the pieces of gauze out loud with the nurse watching. They verbally confirmed the total with each other. A matching count and verbal confirmation were performed after the stitching. It inspired confidence seeing them perform this protocol.

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Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by flukus on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:08AM (#13538423)

With gauze in particular I think every nurse has a story of "that time we removed the septic gauze" with colorful descriptions of the accompanying smell.

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