• Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    3 months ago

    Even with inadequate tests, inadequate monitoring, and an inadequate integration testing environment; how did it not go like this:

    “Hmm the web server appears to be working, but maybe the database is making an oopsie we did just do that whole stupid db migration without a gradual ramp up”

    “Oh hey here’s an idea, why don’t we make sure error messages from the database are logged maybe it’s silently crying out in pain right now :D”

    1 hour later:

    “Ooh lookie, the database is saying that the id already exists”