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vruiz on Oct 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stripe – Outage postmortem

That might be it, but by "on-call engineer" I understood it was someone else.

kzhahou on Oct 10, 2015 [–]

Sure. I picture it as:

"Hey {on-call-engineer}, we're seeing a huge slowdown all of the sudden."

"Was there any change in the last few minutes?"

"We just deleted a database index."

"Yup, that'll do it. Gotta restore it."

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