This post is embarrassing. "yeah we were drinking and accidentally nuked the prod DB. Not sure why. Shit happens!" Who would read this and think they should trust this company? Any number of protections could have been taken to prevent this and production access in any state other than fully alert and attentive shouldn't happen unless it is absolutely necessary for emergency reasons
A previous post said it was "almost free" and I feel like a less cavalier attitude is called for if people are paying for the service. Otherwise sure it doesn't matter
Yeah why should I treat anything this company does with any level of seriousness? Why should anyone?
It's lucky it's just some online scoreboard because I'm sure as shit this stuff has happened before with more critical systems and it scares the hell out of me that engineers are fine blaming "gremlins" instead of taking responsibility for their own incompetence.
> taking responsibility for their own incompetence.
I think they’re doing that with this post? At least I find it hard to imagine myself writing down that I’d drunk a few glasses of wine and dropped the production database.
You cannot expect all engineers to be fully versed in the vagarities of database administration. Especially if they’re the only ones working on something.
