alt Hacker NewsI swear this is my fault. I can go weeks without doing infra work. Github does fine, I don't see any hiccups, status page is all green.
But the day comes that I need to tweak a deploy flow, or update our testing infra and about halfway through the task I take the whole thing down. It's gotten to the point where when there's an outage I'm the first person people ask what I'm doing...and it's pretty dang consistent....
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Plot twist: cpfohl works at Github and actually messes with the infra.
do you know the Pauli-Effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
You should be promoted to SRE - Schrodinger Reliability Engineer
Simple solution: do infra work every few months instead of every few weeks.
Just let us know in advance when you want to do infra work from now on, alright?
Surely this would earn you loads of internet street cred.
Sounds like my Dad, who used to have an uncanny ability to get stuck in elevators. Even got stuck in one with his claustrophobia therapist.