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Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

It was Morgan's very first night on call, and they were a mite nervous, as you can imagine. Suddenly a harsh beeping jolted Morgan out of their reverie: "Service is CRITICAL". Morgan’s night of terror was about to begin.
14th Oct 2021

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