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SEV-2 · Charcha · 22:40

The rollback DNS wouldn't forget.

Fictional company and people. Modelled on a real public postmortem, named at the end.

you're on call tonight

Charcha runs a workplace chat app used by 80 lakh people. It's 22:40. 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, traffic and DNS
  • Harini RamanStaff SRE, incident commander
  • Ankit BhardwajEngineer, led the DNSSEC rollout
  • Lavanya ReddyCustomer experience lead
  • Sudhir NairCTO
~12 min · 5 calls · +60 XP