Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption

Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by Exuma on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:40PM (#13776864)

Imagine being THAT guy.......... in that exact moment...... after hitting enter and realizing what he did. RIP

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by usernametbd on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:40PM (#13777485)

I can imagine being that guy in that exact moment. But I can't imagine being that guy after the event. There will be a constant fear and doubt in my mind. And a constant fear whether others trust me anymore. I couldn't quit because that might make me look bad and I couldn't continue because that might make me look bad.

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by hanspeter on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:12PM (#13777751)

This guy may actually need therapy to not suffer from some light degree of trauma.

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by brongondwana on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:46AM (#13781779)

https://blog.fastmail.com/2011/05/15/outage-report-a-cascade...

I was the guy who deployed the update to every one of our servers as I walked out the door for the day. So I know what this feels like.

You learn to get through it fast, because there's no other choice, you're almost always the best placed person to clean up the mess.

And one day you can look back and the scars have healed.

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by Exuma on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:44AM (#13782764)

Damn! Thanks for sharing your story, it is a great one.

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by sndean on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:56PM (#13777034)

I've never been in that sort of situation, but I really do wonder how I'd react. Hopefully in healthy way.

How do surgeons react when they accidentally cut the wrong thing?

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by hunterjrj on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:28PM (#13777355)

Oh man, finally a chance to plug the book "Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery" by Henry Marsh.

Marsh chronicles his career, and includes (at least) one story about the slip of the scalpel and the... result.

Highly recommended.

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by sndean on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:01PM (#13778164)

Cool. This is why I love HN :)

I'll make sure my soon-to-be MD girlfriend reads it too

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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by Vaanir on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:04PM (#13777693)

He would make good friends with the Gitlab guy very easily I'd imagine.

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