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Disaster Recovery: Homer Edition
Devops Security Programming Databases
2 days ago 130.7K views 0 shares
Disaster Recovery: Homer Edition
Oh. My. GOD! The absolute HORROR of attempting disaster recovery without a backup! 😱 On the left, we have the beautiful, organized Homer Simpson cake - the epitome of having your data properly backed up. But the right?! That MONSTROSITY is what happens when your production database crashes at 4:59pm on Friday and your last backup was from 2019! It's not even a proper Homer anymore - it's Homer's sleep-paralysis demon after a three-day coding bender! The sheer PANIC in those eyes speaks to my SOUL! This is why DevOps engineers drink heavily and database admins have that thousand-yard stare!

How My Day Is Going: The House Of Cards
Devops Git Bash Programming Linux
23 days ago 86.1K views 0 shares
How My Day Is Going: The House Of Cards
Eight years of architecture decisions, three frameworks, and countless refactors... all resting on that one script Jerry wrote during his internship in 2016 that nobody understands but somehow keeps the entire billing system alive. The script that runs at 3 AM every Tuesday from his personal Raspberry Pi under his desk that he forgot to mention when he left for Google. The script that finally decided today was the day to give up. The technical debt collectors have arrived, and they're not accepting payment plans.

Crime Scene: Server Room
Networking Security Devops Hardware Linux
1 month ago 122.7K views 0 shares
Crime Scene: Server Room
Nothing says "happy Monday" like crime scene tape in the server room. That yellow caution tape is the universal symbol for "some poor sysadmin's weekend was utterly destroyed." Whoever put that there is either preventing others from witnessing the horror of a catastrophic failure or preserving evidence for the inevitable postmortem meeting where someone will have to explain why production went down. The best part? Everyone walking by knows exactly what happened without needing a single word of explanation. Server room + caution tape + Monday morning = someone's about to update their resume.