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6 Scary Outage Stories from CTOs

You’re sound asleep when the alarms go off. The only light in the room is coming from your computer monitor.

Then we automated that test and that test still lingers, running randomly in our production environment to this very day.

I noticed a query that we barely used, from our application’s back office, that was really slow because we never prioritized fixing it (it was scarcely used).

Eventually, we fixed the bug in the library, and everyone was able to go back to reading their tweets…