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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by garciasn on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:16PM (#34839926)
I loved when dependencies were manual jobs on local machines that some recently fired dev had been running for 3 years but IT had already wiped their machine.

Deserved to be fired for that one but man did it suck to deal with.

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Re:Twilio Flex outage now 6 hours after laying off 28% staff by sitkack on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:27PM (#34840085)
No they didn’t!

I worked at two orgs, and did worse or better.

One had a crappy backup policy, I replicated the prod database to my workstation and took snapshots twice a day. That saved us TWICE!

The other time and I believe I still have an account running in their systems, they wanted to force devs to use Python 2.4 because that is what was in the base system included. I built my own Python plus deps and rsynced it to all the prod machines.

When I left and they disabled my account they enabled it a couple hours later. It was reportedly still running years later.

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