![]() Or that he and his report kept their jobs, and that the engineer was talked to and better trained. The point is less the ultimate outcome: that Will Larson took responsibility and asked the CTO to fire him. But is that right? What do you say to your CTO? In one fell swoop, you could discipline for the outage, trigger a possibly fated termination, and act in accordance with your manager. Your report who was on call during the outage is not a strong performer - and generally hadn’t been doing a good job. This wasn’t the lapse of one of your best people, who you could chide, but ultimately defend with their track record. This is a difficult situation, but it’s about to get harder. He says you must fire the engineer who was on call to make a point. The silver lining is that your two-tier architecture can keep your site and app online, but the backend of your business has come to a halt. Then thirty minutes later, disk space runs out and your entire site goes down. One day, a member of your team gets an alert that disk space will run out on the primary PostgreSQL server in two hours. ![]() Say your startup has an on-call rotation that follows the sun. ![]()
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