It was a normal summer evening. We were outside our house with neighbors. The adults were chatting, and the kids were playing together.
Suddenly, I got an alert on my phone. Hm, maybe it’s not urgent. I’ll check the stack trace.
My heart sank. I knew immediately what the problem was, and that it was my fault. That incomplete ticket for monitoring here came to bite.
Despite conducting thorough pre-release testing, which is always a good idea, things can still go wrong.
The system being described in this story used monthly partitions. We’d reached the end of the development cycle and monitoring was one ...
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