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Hopefully an engineer didn't accidentally delete the prod DB again.


wait wait wait, this actually happened?



Fantastic post-mortem that I regularly share out with others. A great cautionary tale on the importance of backup testing procedures (aka why "set and forget" with backups is not sufficient).


even better, watch the livestream of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0TRHLvYGE0


fingers crossed




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