The wipe ran on the primary.
Fictional company and people. Modelled on a real public postmortem, named at the end.
you're on call tonight
Shakha runs a code-hosting service for 1.5 million developers. It's 05:04. 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 database engineer
- Arjun MenonDatabase engineer, was repairing the replica
- Farah QureshiSRE manager, incident commander
- Sameer JoshiInfrastructure engineer, disks and snapshots
- Lata KrishnanSupport and comms lead
- Vikram BhatCTO
~13 min · 5 calls · +60 XP