The second that happened twice.
Fictional company and people. Modelled on a real public postmortem, named at the end.
you're on call tonight
Nakshatra Edge runs a DNS and CDN provider answering for 2 lakh domains. It's 05:40. 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 SRE, DNS
- Gautam RaoSenior SRE, incident commander
- Leela JosephStaff engineer, DNS server (Go)
- Sunaina KapurCustomer support and status lead
- Mahesh PanditCTO
~11 min · 5 calls · +60 XP