A malfunction that shut down all of Toyota Motor's assembly plants in Japan for about a day last week occurred because some servers used to process parts orders became unavailable after maintenance procedures, the company said.
I’m sending this to my boss to remind him why monitoring disk space is vital.
I used to be a sysadmin, now a software developer. At one of my old jobs for a massive corporation, they decided to consolidate several apps’ db servers onto one host. We found out about this after it had already happened because they at least properly setup cname records so it was seamless to us. Some data was lost though, but having literally billions of records in our db, we didn’t notice until it triggered a scream test for our users. We were also running up against data storage limits
They ended up undoing the change which caused us a data merge nightmare that lasted several full workdays.
The only thing worse than a single database server is servers poorly maintained database servers. The idea was right, but maybe the implementation was wrong.
I used to be a sysadmin, now a software developer. At one of my old jobs for a massive corporation, they decided to consolidate several apps’ db servers onto one host. We found out about this after it had already happened because they at least properly setup cname records so it was seamless to us. Some data was lost though, but having literally billions of records in our db, we didn’t notice until it triggered a scream test for our users. We were also running up against data storage limits
They ended up undoing the change which caused us a data merge nightmare that lasted several full workdays.
This phrase has brought me much joy.
The only thing worse than a single database server is servers poorly maintained database servers. The idea was right, but maybe the implementation was wrong.