What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10 million page views in a few hours?
Jack Ellis shares what happend at his analytics service when one of his clients got viral
Read more [usefathom.com]
Posts tagged with postmortem
A Shifty Email Bug
Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote a post mortem on a problem where too many mails were sent.
It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 tweets, 9 Slack messages, and 4 telegrams. All of which alerting me my SaSS product had sent 3,625 email messages to 1,544 users overnight. I am Jack's cold sweat. ?
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
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I crashed the web servers of a $100M+ multi-national corporation
A great story by Derick Bailey of Watchmecode.net
The important lesson, ..., was that I owned up to the mistake, dug in and fixed it, and learned how to avoid the problem in the future. I was, in his mind, a better developer at the end of that day. I had survived a catastrophic crash of my own making and I had fixed the problem, learning some very valuable lessons in business down time and in code that day.http://derickbailey.com/email_archive/i-crashed-the-web-servers-of-a-100m-multi-national-corporation/
