Re:Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
by maxk42 on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:13AM
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> How do you square those two things internally?
Easy: (1) He wasn't my boss. (2) He allowed a person not associated his team or even the tech department to conduct potentially harmful operations on the production database without supervision. (3) Those actions resulted in millions of dollars of lost revenue and make-goods. (4) He did not coach the person who brought the database down. (5) He repeated the mistake.
Easy: (1) He wasn't my boss. (2) He allowed a person not associated his team or even the tech department to conduct potentially harmful operations on the production database without supervision. (3) Those actions resulted in millions of dollars of lost revenue and make-goods. (4) He did not coach the person who brought the database down. (5) He repeated the mistake.