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Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by cnst on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:24PM (#13537941)
Startups only, you say?

Everything, everywhere, is held together by ducttape!

Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by saosebastiao on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:38AM (#13539079)
True. I watched a 60 year old manufacturing plant shut down for 7 days once because someone saved an excel spreadsheet in the wrong format and it deleted a macro written more than a decade prior that held together all of their operations planning.
Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report by kirushik on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @04:55AM (#13539561)
At my current project we have components which are literally called `duct-tape` and `glue`.