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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by hinkley on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:13PM (#29475231)
We're in a situation where the balls of mud made people afraid to touch some things in the system. As experiences and processes have improved we've started to crack back into those things and guess what, when you are being groomed to own a process you're going to fuck it up from time to time. Objectively, we're still breaking production less often per year than other teams, but we are breaking it, and that's novel behavior, so we have to keep reminding people why.

The moment that affects promotions negatively, or your coworkers throw you under the bus, you should 1) be assertive and 2) proof-read your resume as a precursor to job hunting.

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by sharpy on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:33PM (#29478496)
Or problems just persisting, because the fix is easy, but explaining it to others who do not work on the system are hard. Esp. justifying why it won't cause an issue, and being told that the fixes need to be done via scripts that will only ever be used once, but nevertheless needs to be code reviewed and tested...

I wanted to be proactive and fix things before they became an issue, but such things just drained life out of me, to the point I just left.