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Raviraj Achar's avatar

I loved the article! I love listening & telling "how I messed up" stories. They always have the fun & learning part.

"I felt physically ill, and helpless." I know the feeling :) The feeling of receding blood flow from your limbs and it gushing to your head. That scary moment after you mess up something big and before you know you have to fix it.

"For those of you not working in startups - please don’t judge 😅"

I won't! Meta had something similar back in the day. I remember a new hire from MSFT being in awe when I hot-fixed an issue and ran it from my dev server.

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Tianzhou's avatar

The article is both entertaining and educational. Been there, done that.

FWIW, we are building a tool called Bytebase (bytebase.com) that is supposed to prevent this happening.

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