Ships It Friday
It's Friday
Toby cleaned up the old test data and everything ran much faster afterwards, because the table he emptied was the users table on production.
The mistake
A destructive command aimed confidently at the wrong target. Nothing in the prompt distinguished the production database from the test one, so the only safety net left was the backup — and the backup was three days old.
- databases
- backups
- process
- on-call