Critical Point War Stories: Software Engineers Talk Breaking Production

Mar 21 2024 2
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Building better software, one incident at a time. We talk with software engineers about that time they broke production. This is the audio version of the podcast. Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@critical-point Produced by Complex Systems Group (https://complexsystems.group). Part of Critical Point (https://criticalpoint.tv).

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Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of SRE? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus

Mar 21 2024 12 mins  
Outtake from https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/he-broke-turkish-twitter-abhijit-mehtaAbhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehtaAbhijit's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehtaabhijit/To watch the video version of the podcast on YouTube, check out the channel page at https://youtube.com/@critical-pointCredits:Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://e

He Broke Turkish Twitter - Abhijit Mehta

Feb 21 2024 65 mins  
Abhijit Mehta tells how one tiny dot made almost made a massive difference to Twitter's Turkish ad revenue.Abhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehtaAbhijit's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehtaabhijit/Chapters:(00:00) - Intro (01:25) - How did you find yourself in a place where you could break production? (08:53) - Akamai & the 'aha' moments of product deve

She Missed the Overnight Push! - Julia Lunetta

Feb 08 2024 52 mins  
Julia Lunetta tells us how an ostensibly minor change caused her employer, a financial institution (Upromise Investments), to miss its overnight reconciliation with its banks.Credits:Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emo

She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph

Sep 25 2023 54 mins  
Kate Rudolph tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entire Internet.Credits:Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is lic

He Locked Players Out On Launch Day - Zachery Johnson

Sep 20 2023 84 mins  
Zachery Johnson tells how an innocent command doomed the database servers and locked players out of Diablo II: Resurrected on Day 2 of launch.Blizzard's blog post on the incident: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/diablo-ii-resurrected-outages-an-explanation-how-we%E2%80%99ve-been-working-on-it-and-how-we%E2%80%99re-moving-forward/28164Credits:Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk

Twelve Lines of Code Took Down the Whole Company - Patrick O'Doherty

Aug 08 2023 61 mins  
Patrick O'Doherty (https://patrickod.computer) tells how a seemingly-simple configuration change one Friday morning led to a massive outage.Credits:Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/ptstarrCritical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.https://www.behance.net/lopeztimesCritical Point logo and wordmark c

He Broke (part of) The Internet - Willie Williams

Aug 03 2023 47 mins  
Willie Williams (https://twitter.com/bigwilliestyle) tells the story of the time he accidentally took down a major site while an intern at Akamai.Credits:Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/ptstarrCritical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.https://www.behance.net/lopeztimesCritical Point logo and word