Worst thing I ever did was before I was a developer. I was trying to debug an issue with a product line in our content management system. We had Canadian products, US products, and then a small set of US products sold in Canada. That small set of US-in-Canada products weren't displaying images. So, I republished something from the CMS, and fixed it!
2 minutes later, every phone in the department was ringing, as the entire US product line was down. It was a Friday, and the busiest day of the month for traffic. On the one hand, I could argue that it wasn't my fault. Apparently there was a bug in how products were connected, and I'd just uncovered it. On the other hand, no one cares, the entire US product line is gone.
So, I quickly unpublished a thing, and the US product line was back. At which time, I went in to the director's office, confessed what I had done, and why it'd happened. (CMS had no archiving, and no staging environment, theoretically I could've gotten off scott-free). The Director said, "everyone gets one , this was yours"
As a developer... I crashed codewars.com. I mistakenly wrote some infinite, recursive loop in some code challenge. The browser got slow and unresponsive. Then the page froze up. I went to check the health of codewars.com (they actually had a health-check page somewhere), and it was reporting slow. then, it... was down.
Worst thing I ever did was before I was a developer. I was trying to debug an issue with a product line in our content management system. We had Canadian products, US products, and then a small set of US products sold in Canada. That small set of US-in-Canada products weren't displaying images. So, I republished something from the CMS, and fixed it!
2 minutes later, every phone in the department was ringing, as the entire US product line was down. It was a Friday, and the busiest day of the month for traffic. On the one hand, I could argue that it wasn't my fault. Apparently there was a bug in how products were connected, and I'd just uncovered it. On the other hand, no one cares, the entire US product line is gone.
So, I quickly unpublished a thing, and the US product line was back. At which time, I went in to the director's office, confessed what I had done, and why it'd happened. (CMS had no archiving, and no staging environment, theoretically I could've gotten off scott-free). The Director said, "everyone gets one , this was yours"
As a developer... I crashed codewars.com. I mistakenly wrote some infinite, recursive loop in some code challenge. The browser got slow and unresponsive. Then the page froze up. I went to check the health of codewars.com (they actually had a health-check page somewhere), and it was reporting slow. then, it... was down.
You crashed a site from your desk. Badass! 🙌🙌😂😂