Hazard lights

Sat, 10 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

There are about fifteen of us in the enclosure. Backend engineers, SRE, devops, infra – handpicked from across the floor. The rest of the team, about a hundred people, sit outside. They call us the fishes in the aquarium.

The aquarium has hazard lights. Physical ones – wired to fire on any 5xx in the system. When something breaks in production, the room goes red.

It sounds like a gimmick. It isn’t.

Observability on vnykmshr

Hazard lights