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by gavinray 1095 days ago
When I was 18, at my first dev job, I was put in charge of trying to migrate and modernize an old PHP app for a client.

I had been there maybe 6 months. For some reason I can't recall I was meant to delete the staging RDS database.

Well, the databases weren't given human names, they were both long autogenerated strings.

I deleted the staging database and then prod stopped working

Whoops