Gitlab’s 2017 Postgres Outage

The Downtime Project
The Downtime Project
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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