nraval1729··on Fastly OutageInteresting thought. I had not thought about this before. If there is a cyclic dependency (not saying there is at the moment) how would things play out? Do you just ssh into your own servers to deploy the fix?
nraval1729··on What If You Could Do It All Over?For anyone wanting to have a fictional take on this subject, I'd recommend reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.
nraval1729··on October 21 post-incident analysisDefinitely checkout Gitlab's post mortem from last year https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...It's very informative and also dives deep into their "Whys" pertaining to the outage.