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Critical Point - War Stories

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We talk with software engineers about that time they broke production. Part of Critical Point (criticalpoint.tv).

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09/26/23 • 54 min

Kate Rudolph tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entire Internet.

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Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr

Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes

Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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09/26/23 • 54 min

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09/21/23 • 84 min

Zachery Johnson tells how an innocent command doomed the database servers and locked players out of Diablo II: Resurrected on Day 2 of launch.

Blizzard's blog post on the incident: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/diablo-ii-resurrected-outages-an-explanation-how-we%E2%80%99ve-been-working-on-it-and-how-we%E2%80%99re-moving-forward/28164

Credits:

Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr

Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes

Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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09/21/23 • 84 min

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08/09/23 • 61 min

Patrick O'Doherty (https://patrickod.computer) tells how a seemingly-simple configuration change one Friday morning led to a massive outage.

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Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr

Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes

Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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08/09/23 • 61 min

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08/03/23 • 47 min

Willie Williams (https://twitter.com/bigwilliestyle) tells the story of the time he accidentally took down a major site while an intern at Akamai.

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Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr

Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes

Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Critical Point - War Stories have?

Critical Point - War Stories currently has 4 episodes available.

What topics does Critical Point - War Stories cover?

The podcast is about Devops, Software, Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on Critical Point - War Stories?

The episode title 'She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Critical Point - War Stories?

The average episode length on Critical Point - War Stories is 62 minutes.

How often are episodes of Critical Point - War Stories released?

Episodes of Critical Point - War Stories are typically released every 5 days, 13 hours.

When was the first episode of Critical Point - War Stories?

The first episode of Critical Point - War Stories was released on Aug 3, 2023.

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