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Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017
GOTO Conferences · May 10, 2017 · 52m 35s
What this video covers
Bryan Cantrill's GOTO Chicago 2017 talk on debugging production systems under pressure, centered on the incident where an operator's mistyped command rebooted an entire Joyent datacenter. It covers human factors, automation and architecture.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
A perennial HN recommendation for outage and postmortem threads, praised as funny, educational and one of the best postmortems anyone has seen.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“Bryan Cantrill, who gives my favorite talks, has an interesting and funny talk on one of the Joyent outages”
“Time to share one of my favorite talks (and speakers) ever”
“The best postmortem I've seen was actually a conference talk”