The 2017 GitLab Production Database Deletion
Kevin Fang · Comedy · 10 min · 2023 · YouTube title: Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
Why it's here
Shared as a funny, accurate retelling of a classic outage, especially on a bad ops day.
What it covers
Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems. It walks through the confusion and failed backups.