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Picture this: it’s September 2, 1666, and you’re in London. The air is crisp, the streets are buzzing, and uh-oh, there’s a fire in a bakery on Pudding Lane. Fast forward a few days, and the Great Fire of London has reduced much of the city to ashes. But what if we could approach this historical disaster through a DevOps lens? Buckle up as we dive into this flaming fiasco!
When the Deployment Goes Wrong
In the world of software development, we all know the pain of a bad deployment. Imagine the Great Fire as the ultimate production failure. It started with a small “hotfix” (a bakery fire), but things quickly escalated out of control. Within days, over 13,000 houses were charred, along with iconic landmarks like St. Paul’s Cathedral. It’s a classic case of misconfiguration leading to a catastrophic event.
In DevOps, we mitigate risks with extensive testing, rollback plans, and thorough documentation. But what did London have back then? A bucket brigade? No CI/CD pipelines in sight, just a bunch of confused townsfolk wondering how to contain the inferno.
The Incident Response: Or Lack Thereof
When disaster strikes, having an incident response plan is crucial. The city of London, unfortunately, had a…
