Server Broke Because It Was Invisibly Designed To Break
The Register, December 16th, 2022
Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose - but not on their mind
The week, and indeed the year, may be ebbing away to their respective conclusions, but The Register continues to toil away at On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of techies triumphing under trying circumstances.
This week, meet a chap we'll Regomize as "Kris" who arrived at his desk one Monday morning to find the phone ringing off the hook, a full voicemail inbox, and his pager pinging with urgent messages from his manager.
The cause of all that urgency was a dead server that powered an important application...