Datadog, the observability giant, just experienced the mother of all outages! ๐ฑ We're talking a whopping 24+ hours of downtime that cost them a cool $5 mil in lost revenue. ๐ธ And get this, it affected EVERY. SINGLE. CUSTOMER. ๐ Talk about a bad day at the office! ๐
The culprit? A sneaky OS update that wreaked havoc on their systems. ๐ป Despite the massive scale of this fiasco, Datadog has been surprisingly tight-lipped ๐ค about the whole ordeal. No external postmortem? C'mon, spill the tea! ๐ต But hey, there's always a silver lining, right? ๐ Let's hope they've learned their lesson about double-checking those changelogs and keeping customers in the loop during a crisis. ๐ฃ Want all the juicy details? ๐ Read more here: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-biggest-ever-global-outage-lessons?r=2bjtip&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=tldrwebdev&triedRedirect=true
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