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If we're going to use hindsight, we might as well look at the cause and the effect.

Yes, they missed out some pretty obvious things. And what happened? A few hours of downtime because their restore was slow, plus a tiny bit of inconsequential data loss. Hardly a catastrophe.

The fact is that every site has some sort of problems. Many of them will be completely obvious like this one. And while github could have gone through and attempted to fix them all, I much prefer they spend their time doing things that have more than a few hours of impact on my life.

No doubt they will fix the issues involved today.



Your post is a good illustration of the type of attitude we want to scrupulously avoid when appointing someone to be in charge of a database.




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