Have you ever deleted live data from a server?
Pushed something that broke everything? 😬
How did you recover from it?
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What's the worst mistake you've ever pushed to production or deleted by accident? 🤔
Publish Date: Jun 12
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Cesar AguirreJun 12, 2025- Took down a database server with a poorly written query
- Wrote a module that every time we deployed it into a custom CRM took down the website
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Ben HalpernJun 12, 2025I pushed some logic to Heroku which triggered a reboot on boot. I.e. infinite loop.
It put the application into a state which we could not get out of — and then our account became suspended and we triggered a system-wide "warning" on their status page. Not like I caused an outage or anything, but it my code was bad enough to cause a system-wide circumstance of some kind.
Not my experience specifically but a colleague migrated to a new service provider without updating the API key in the production environment variables. Entire time they were trying to do "bug-fixes" instead of looking at the logs which would identify the 401 access issue specifically linked to the API key. Normal human error mistake. Could happen to anybody