It's the Simple Things
/via http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/06/03/the-problem-is-not-the-tool-itself/ I actually have a Post-it on my monitor that sez. “Have you thought of the Obvious?”. I mean, at the first cry of “ OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT WERE DOWN WHATTF IS GOING ON ”, it’s really worth asking yourself some fairly basic stuff like • Is GitHub Down? • Are our bills paid up? • Did an upstream package change? • Is somebody DDoS-ing us? and even “ Is AWS having problems? ” And yeah, before you go there, we could automate/work around the above stuff. We have too, up to the point where the intermittent pain just about balances out the effort involved