On: Postmortem of database outage of January 31

[chadcmulligan]

doesn't everyone alias rm to rm -i on prod?

likewise all tty's have red backgrounds on prod.

[nathancahill → chadcmulligan]

I'm not sure if you're making an equally sarcastic point as your parent or not..

[chadcmulligan → nathancahill]

nope serious. I was at a place that the dba did exactly what happened at gitlab but in sql

select * from table > script

@script.

(drop all the tables)

It was in prod, he thought it was a dev db, the backups had never worked. After this the edict was all terminals for prod will be red. A simple solution