Gitlab’s 2017 Postgres Outage

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Gitlab's 2017 Postgres Outage
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On January 31st, 2017, Gitlab experienced 24 hours of downtime and some data loss. After it was over, the team wrote a fantastic post-mortem about the experience. Listen to Tom and Jamie walk through the outage and opine on the value of having a different color prompt on machines in your production environment.

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Slack vs TGWs

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Slack vs TGWs
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Slack was down for about 1.5 hours on the first day everyone was back in their (virtual) office in 2021, Jan 4th. Fortunately for everyone, they published a great post-mortem on their blog about what happened. Listen to Tom and Jamie walk through the timeline, complain about Linux’s default file descriptor limit, and talk about some lessons learned.

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Introduction

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Introduction
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Welcome to The Downtime Project! Here’s a quick episode where Tom and Jamie talk about why they created the show and what you can expect.

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