It was 11:47 PM on a Thursday when the Slack messages started rolling in. "Hey, the checkout page...
It was 11:47 PM on a Thursday when the Slack messages started rolling in.
"Hey, the checkout page looks broken."
"Is the site down? I'm seeing a blank screen."
"Tried three different browsers, same thing."
I pulled up our uptime monitor. Green. Every check passing. Response times normal. HTTP 200 across the board. By every metric the monitor tracked, the site was healthy.
A post-mortem on a cert expiry outage that an uptime monitor marked green for four hours. What Let's Encrypt auto-renewal…
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It was a Tuesday afternoon. Nothing felt different about the deploy. Same process as always. Green...
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From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines
