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Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours (www.theregister.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 68 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve been a professional programmer for 19 years this year, and I caused 3-hour data loss on one of our major apps just the other week. Shit happens. Humans make errors; even experienced ones. We should strive to learn from it.

As they say:

Biting your tongue while eating is the perfect example of how you can mess up even with decades of experience.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Biting your tongue while eating is the perfect example of how you can mess up even with decades of experience.

Should have setup a staging enviroment and tasted there first before diving in. \s

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Question: is the \s a Windows version of /s?