October 23rd, 2023 × #Database Failures#Site Outages#Data Exposure
Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1
Developers share horror stories of catastrophic mistakes like deleting databases, breaking site functionality, exposing data, and more.
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more.
Show Notes
- 00:21 Welcome
- 01:22 Whetting your whistle
- 01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
- 02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country
- 04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident
- 05:54 The Pull Request Oversight
- 08:02 Making changes to a JSON file
- 13:11 Deploying a "disallow everything" robots.txt
- 14:45 GDPR Deletion
- 16:11 Dropping the backing disk for the production postgres
- 17:05 Accidentally pushing staging code as an update
- 18:34 Email fail
- 19:25 Hot mobile app prayers
- 22:28 Bogus ACH info
- 23:51 Wiring money error
- 26:44 Payment gateway test not production
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