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Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues

Kevin Fang · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityDatabases & storageSatire & parody

What it is

Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems. It walks through the confusion and failed backups.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Shared as a funny, accurate retelling of a classic outage, especially on a bad ops day.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “The reenactment by Kevin Fang is always a good source of comedy on a bad day.”

    Comedic reenactment of the 2017 GitLab incident

    xyst, 2024-08 · Recommendation · in “Gitlab is reportedly up for sale”

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Topics: gitlab, postmortem, production database, devops, incident

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