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by Pharylon 3124 days ago
That was hung on the door to the office of the DBA at my last job.

One day, we had a catastrophic loss of data due to a junior developer running a destructive script against the production server instead of the test server. We went to restore the database only to discover the hourly snapshots had been failing for months and he hadn't noticed

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Almost all system failures are due to open loop processes. To evolve you need to rely on feedback.
Did you take his sign down?