It's really fascinating how managers can act surprised over a critical prod issue especially after the whole dev department warned them repeatedly.

Lol. Wtf this is exactly what happened today with our Postgres replication cluster

Well the other option is to accept their mistake and only people with real balls do that.

“Yes, we hear you telling us that technical debt is a thing, but it works just fine and you always manage to fix it when it breaks!”

*5 minutes laterrrrrrrr*

“OMG IT’S BROKEN. EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE. HELP. HELP. HELP”

“I fucking told you so, you ignorant cunt.”

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The best is when you warn them about scalability etc ahead of time, and then when it comes to performance issues and the only way around it is to do it properly, they act all surprised that it’s come to bite them.

I genuinely don’t know why people treat software differently to mechanical devices. It’s basically the same thing, except instead of gears and pistons it’s code.