Random thoughts on technology, teams, and leadership. Content from defunct blogs and companies will be added from time to time. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Early in my career, I was the DBA at a multinational distribution company. One night the entire APAC region went down and I was frantically paged at midnight. The database was decidedly unhappy, and as I investigated the problem it seemed tied to an application update that was deployed during the US day. The APAC executives were furious and wanted the problem resolved.
