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Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of SRE? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus
Outtake from https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/he-broke-turkish-twitter-abhijit-mehtaAbhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehtaAbhijit's LinkedIn:...
He Broke Turkish Twitter - Abhijit Mehta
Abhijit Mehta tells how one tiny dot made almost made a massive difference to Twitter's Turkish ad revenue.Abhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehtaAbhijit'...
She Missed the Overnight Push! - Julia Lunetta
Julia Lunetta tells us how an ostensibly minor change caused her employer, a financial institution (Upromise Investments), to miss its overnight reconciliation with it...
She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph
Kate Rudolph tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entire Internet.Credits:Emoji artw...
He Locked Players Out On Launch Day - Zachery Johnson
Zachery Johnson tells how an innocent command doomed the database servers and locked players out of Diablo II: Resurrected on Day 2 of launch.Blizzard's blog post on t...
Twelve Lines of Code Took Down the Whole Company - Patrick O'Doherty
Patrick O'Doherty (https://patrickod.computer) tells how a seemingly-simple configuration change one Friday morning led to a massive outage.Credits:Intro & outro - "Se...
He Broke (part of) The Internet - Willie Williams
Willie Williams (https://twitter.com/bigwilliestyle) tells the story of the time he accidentally took down a major site while an intern at Akamai.Credits:Intro & outro...