The eighth server kept the old code.
Fictional company and people. Modelled on a real public postmortem, named at the end.
you're on call tonight
Sutradhar Securities runs a broker's order router that sends retail orders to the stock exchange. It's 09:16. The channel fills up as the night goes on; at 5 points you make the call. A wrong move costs minutes and users, and someone tells you why.
in the channel
- YouOn-call engineer, order routing
- Meenakshi SundaramHead of trading technology, incident commander
- Kunal BhatiaEngineer, ran this week's router release
- Farhan AliChief risk officer
- Shweta KulkarniCompliance and communications
- Arvind NairCEO
~12 min · 5 calls · +60 XP