4 episodes
Critical Point - War Stories Critical Point
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- Technology
We talk with software engineers about that time they broke production. Part of Critical Point (criticalpoint.tv).
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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:
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Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
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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 the incident: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/diablo-ii-resurrected-outages-an-explanation-how-we%E2%80%99ve-been-working-on-it-and-how-we%E2%80%99re-moving-forward/28164
Credits:
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright ⓒ 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. -
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 - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright ⓒ 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. -
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 - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright ⓒ 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.