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Put Everything In A USB And Mail It To AWS
Git Devops Programming AWS
2 months ago 88.0M views 0 shares
Put Everything In A USB And Mail It To AWS
Junior dev discovers version control the hard way. The confidence to suggest SCPing code to production servers is absolutely legendary – like suggesting we should just email our database backups or fax our API keys. The senior's "absolute horror" is so palpable you can feel it through the tweet. What makes this gold is the "I still think about it from time to time" – that's the mark of a career-defining moment where you learned that Git exists for a reason. Fun fact: AWS actually does have a service called Snowball where you literally mail physical storage devices to them for massive data transfers (think petabytes). So technically, the title isn't that far off from reality when you're dealing with truly massive datasets. But for code? Just use Git, please.

Side Project
Cloud AWS Devops Backend Debugging
2 months ago 3.5M views 0 shares
Side Project
When your "just for fun" side project with 81 users accidentally racks up 16 billion writes to AWS S3's Durable Object storage and you get hit with a $35k bill. Nothing says "good morning" quite like financial ruin from a hobby project. The math here is wild: that's roughly 197,000 writes per user per month. Either this dev built the world's most aggressive logging system, or they created an infinite loop that makes fibonacci recursion look efficient. Pro tip: always set up billing alerts before deploying to production. Or in this case, before deploying to "81 people who probably don't even use it anymore." The CloudFlare subreddit is the perfect place to share this nightmare—misery loves company, especially when that company also uses cloud services without reading the pricing docs.

Stuff Of Nightmares
Devops Debugging Testing Programming Git
11 months ago 380.3K views 0 shares
Stuff Of Nightmares
Regular ghosts? Pfft, not scary. But pushing untested code to production on Friday afternoon? PURE TERROR. Nothing says "I've chosen violence today" quite like deploying right before the weekend. The developer's screaming face perfectly captures that moment when you realize your weekend plans just transformed into "debugging mysterious errors while your PM sends increasingly concerned texts." Pro tip: the only thing that should get pushed on Friday is your office chair... back under your desk as you leave at 2pm.

Crashing Prod With Our Best Of Intentions
Databases Devops Debugging Backend Programming
1 year ago 340.0K views 0 shares
Crashing Prod With Our Best Of Intentions
Ah, the classic IT heroism gone wrong! 🚲 Picture this: IT department spots an outdated ODBC driver (that ancient database connector nobody remembers until it breaks) and thinks "I'll just quietly update this real quick!" Next thing you know, the production environment is doing its best impression of a bicycle crash - face-planted into the pavement with wheels still spinning. It's that special kind of tech disaster where everyone was just trying to help, but nobody thought to ask "hey, should we maybe tell someone before we yank out the digital rug?" The road to production hell is paved with well-intentioned driver updates!