The night of a cascading failure
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/01/20/quiet/ [rachelbythebay.com]
2019-01-22 01:08
Remember that as you read through this story, you knew about the intrepid engineer and their “mytest2” change because that’s how I laid it out. The people who had to fix the problem initially had no idea it traced back to that, and not just because there are thousands of changes going on at any given moment. They also couldn’t log in to even SEE the list of changes, and then when they could, the list *broke* because of the bug. They also couldn’t even page each other initially, because, well, again, everything was broken.
source: L