twitter also turned off their api for anyone who hadn’t paid them, but didn’t realize their own apps and website use the same api. So the whole site stopped working for like an hour.

:my-hero: .

  • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This is like Christmas for the experts in software incidents that I follow. They’re like “I will seriously pay money to be able to go to the post-mortem for this”

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      lol I often say i would kill to go to a lot of postmortems, i've been saying it a lot lately about twitter

      who is it that you follow? that sounds right up my alley

      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        These people are excellent at their craft and their tweets seriously broaden my understanding about incidents:

        • https://twitter.com/norootcause
        • https://twitter.com/ahidalgosre
        • https://twitter.com/this_hits_home
        • https://twitter.com/themortalemily

        Also this dude just rocks, and posts so many insightful things about stuff like systems thinking, software philosophy and Marxism. I wish there were more thinkers like him in our industry:

        • https://twitter.com/ReinH