Re:GitHub is down
by robotsquidward on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:41PM
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I sometimes look forward to outages like this just so I can read the post-downtime-resolution blog post that almost always follow. I find reading about how companies deal with issues when shit hits the fan to be really interesting.
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Agreed. I almost always dial into any large scale events at my company - regardless if it concerns me directly - to listen how ppl critically evaluate data, triage errors, and determine how to mitigate the problem(s).
Whatever skill level I have in this area, I cannot nail down if it's from multiple "baptism by fire" situations, learned naturally via university courses in the scientific field, strategy video games (half joking), or other sources I cannot think of.
I've listened to some very impressive people handle serious crisis situations and I'm both in awe and curious how they achieved that level of deductive reasoning.
The same way anyone gets good at anything: practice. Knowledge of the system + experience in high pressure situations and you get pretty good at solving those problems over time.
I agree. I made a website which breaks down failures and resolutions.
Re:GitHub is down
by maximeblais on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:34PM
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Probably not what he's talking about but there's a nice collection here: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems