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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by mercwear on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:55PM (#13547702)
I am sick of the "They are transparent so it's ok" argument. The fact is this type of thing should not happen anymore.. I get it, stuff fails but it's not acceptable to lose production data at this scale and save face by being transparent. That was ok back in 2003.. Not anymore.
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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by seanp2k2 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:38AM (#13549293)
Compare with Github and their 98.935% uptime over the past month: https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month

Neither should be exclusively relied upon for business-critical services. Ask Github about their production backups and DR plans some time.

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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by mst on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:56AM (#13551383)
I still remember the outage where github ran their tests against production - which started by TRUNACTEing everything before loading fixtures.

I think "everybody learns the hard way" is just one of those things with operations.

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Re:Data Loss at GitLab by anonymous_green on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:50AM (#13550139)
Probably they cut cost by hiring a group of really incompetent set of developers because they are a "startup" and "transparent" and "its ok". Nothing could make state of the company more "transparent" than that. xD
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