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There was one outage caused by a runaway which testing would have easily caught; I think about last year.



Are you thinking of this outage from last month?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261591


There was something from >1y ago.


Probably this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5239673

(I remembered "new user" so was able to get a search to work...)


Good catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.


Yep. That's the kind of thing which is fun for hn but wouldn't be a good idea at all on a financial system -- where you optimize for least bad likely worst case, not best best case.




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