I joined the on-call rotation this fortnight. My first page came at 2:47am Saturday: disk full on the database server, because a log file nobody knew about had been quietly growing since before I was hired. I fixed it with one rm and shaking hands, then couldn’t sleep from adrenaline. My tech lead says everyone remembers their first page like a first kiss. Mine smelled like log rotation.
The Champions League semis have taken over lunch. Dortmund are suddenly incredible. Lewandowski scored four against Real Madrid in the quarter-final from positions that make no geometric sense.
Twitter is cracking down on third-party clients with API limits and devs are furious. Apps people spent years building are just capped. Second time this quarter I’ve learned “don’t build your house on someone else’s platform.” (RIP Reader. Still bitter.)
TIL: logrotate exists and has existed the whole time. Also: alerts should fire before the disk is full. We alert at 95%, which at our growth rate is apparently 20 minutes of warning. change is up to make it 80%.