I swear this is my fault. I can go weeks without doing infra work. Github does fine, I don't see any hiccups, status page is all green.
But the day comes that I need to tweak a deploy flow, or update our testing infra and about halfway through the task I take the whole thing down. It's gotten to the point where when there's an outage I'm the first person people ask what I'm doing...and it's pretty dang consistent....
Sounds like my Dad, who used to have an uncanny ability to get stuck in elevators. Even got stuck in one with his claustrophobia therapist.
Plot twist: cpfohl works at Github and actually messes with the infra.
Second plot twist: cpfohl actually works at Microsoft on Copilot
do you know the Pauli-Effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
At my old job we’d call that Daily bogons (my last name). Didn’t know I was in such illustrious company.
Brilliant. I love it
Related: In FreeBSD we used to talk often about the Wemm Field. Peter Wemm was one of the early FreeBSD developers and responsible for most of the early project server cluster, and hardware had a phenomenal habit of breaking in his vicinity. One notable story I heard involved transporting servers between data centers and hitting a Christmas tree in the middle of a highway... in March.
Just let us know in advance when you want to do infra work from now on, alright?
I’ll try. Lemme know if you need a day off too…
I know a guy who knows a guy who might need a day off haha
And they are gonna give a pizza party if I get them a day off. I am gonna share a slice with ya too.
Doing a github worldwide outage by magical quantum entanglement for a slice of pizza? I think I would take that deal! xD.
You should be promoted to SRE - Schrodinger Reliability Engineer
Simple solution: do infra work every few months instead of every few weeks.
Surely this would earn you loads of internet street cred.
I'm not going to lie, I have a certain mystique among my coworkers.