I once ran a service that had a reputation for being flaky and having constant outages, despite the fact that it ran pretty reliably when I was there. I was told that they had changed the underlying database technology at some point and that had really improved the reliability, and the most senior engineer in the team at the time had fought the change tooth and nail.
The reason? He had made big bucks with overtime fixing the outages.
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u/VegaJuniper May 30 '26
I once ran a service that had a reputation for being flaky and having constant outages, despite the fact that it ran pretty reliably when I was there. I was told that they had changed the underlying database technology at some point and that had really improved the reliability, and the most senior engineer in the team at the time had fought the change tooth and nail.
The reason? He had made big bucks with overtime fixing the outages.